Mozilla Firefox up to 3.6.3 resource management

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mozilla Firefox. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in resource management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2010-1990. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Mozilla Firefox (Web Browser). This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19, and earlier, and SeaMonkey, executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

The weakness was presented 05/20/2010 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2010-1990 since 05/20/2010. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/05/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-53286, VDB-53285, VDB-53284 and VDB-53282 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Mozilla

Name

• Firefox

Version

• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.0.8
• 3.0.9
• 3.0.10
• 3.0.11
• 3.0.12
• 3.0.13
• 3.0.14
• 3.0.15
• 3.0.16
• 3.0.17
• 3.0.19
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.6.1
• 3.6.2
• 3.6.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.mozilla.org/
• Product: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

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