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Mozilla Firefox 'document.location' Denial Of Service Vulnerability
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
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Firefox browser on Windows XP and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an incompletely configured protocol handler that does not properly implement setting of the 'document.location' property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which can be caused via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by the 'chromehtml:' and 'aim:' protocols.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Mozilla Firefox version 3.5.2 on Windows XP.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 3.6.3 or later