CVE-2010-1987

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 - Denial of Service via JavaScript String Operations

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element, and performs certain other string concatenation and substring operations, related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/64790
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013
Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0152
EPSS Percentile 71.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (1)
mozilla/firefox 3.6.3
Published May 20, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026