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Mozilla Products 'IFRAME' Denial Of Service vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
13 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to improper handling of an 'IFRAME' element with a mailto: URL in its 'SRC' attribute, which allows remote attackers to exhaust resources via an HTML document with many 'IFRAME' elements.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Seamonkey version prior to 2.0.4, Firefox version 3.0.x to 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, 3.6.x before 3.6.2
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.9, 3.6.2 Upgrade to Seamonkey version 2.0.4