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Mozilla Products 'select()' Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey/Thunderbird and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A null pointer dereference error occurs while calling the 'select' method with a large integer, that results in continuous allocation of x+n bytes of memory exhausting memory after a while.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Seamonkey version prior to 1.1.17 Thunderbird version 2.0.0.22 and prior Firefox version before 2.0.0.19 and 3.x before 3.0.5 on Windows.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox version 2.0.0.19 or 3.0.5 or later Upgrade to Seamonkey version 1.1.17 or later Apply patch for Thunderbird through above mozilla engine update.