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Firefox XUL Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
4.3
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox browser and is prone to XUL Parsing Vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
Error in browser due to improper parsing of XUL (XML) documents while opening a specially-crafted XML document containing long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Firefox version 3.0 to 3.0.8 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox version 3.6.3 or later.