Vulnerability CVE-2010-1987
Published: 2010-05-20   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element, and performs certain other string concatenation and substring operations, related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Firefox 3.6.3 (latest) <= memory exhaustion crash vulnerabilities
geinblues
25.05.2010

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded
http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013
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