CVE-2007-5896

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 - Denial of Service via NULL Byte in iframe document.location

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via an iframe with Javascript that sets the document.location to contain a leading NULL byte (\x00) and a (1) res://, (2) about:config, or (3) file:/// URI.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/45296
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38233
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2007-11/msg00094.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0117
EPSS Percentile 64.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox 2.0.0.9
Published Nov 08, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026