CVE-2007-2162

high

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466220/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-04-22

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H