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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

5 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

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)