CVE-2010-1987

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://osvdb.org/64790
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded
• http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013
• http://osvdb.org/64790
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded
• http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013