CVE-2007-2162

GNU IceWeasel 2.0.0.3 - Denial of Service via Regular Expression Matching

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

(1) Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 and (2) GNU IceWeasel 2.0.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash or system hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466220/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0075
EPSS Percentile 73.4%

Details

Status published
Products (2)
gnu/iceweasel 2.0.0.3
mozilla/firefox 2.0.0.3
Published Apr 22, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026