Mozilla document.open() Memory Corruption Denial of Service (deprecated)

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1318

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running a version of the Mozilla browser that contains a vulnerability that will result in memory corruption. This issue occurs when document.open() is called as the action to be performed when a form is submitted. Under certain circumstances, processing this data will result in memory corruption, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of Mozilla.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 1318

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mozilla:mozilla

Reference Information

BID: 5759

Detections

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