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CVE-2010-1987 (GCVE-0-2010-1987)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-05-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://osvdb.org/64790 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_cras… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2010-05-18 00:00
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