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FKIE_CVE-2010-1987

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2010-05-20 17:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:19

Severity

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.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://osvdb.org/64790
cve@mitre.org	http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.org	http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762
cve@mitre.org	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://osvdb.org/64790
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58762
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12013

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mozilla	firefox	3.6.3
	microsoft	windows_xp	*

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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

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

6 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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