CVE-2009-1828

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8822

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5928

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50838

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-1823

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469565

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35132

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506328/100/100/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503876/100/0/threaded

http://websecurity.com.ua/3194/

http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-denial-of-service.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0263.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0247.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS