CVE-2010-1986

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via JavaScript code that creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values, and then appends long strings to the content of a P element, related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

1.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 74th percentile

Published

2010-05-20

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2010-1983
• CVE-2010-1987
• CVE-2010-1982
• CVE-2010-1988
• CVE-2010-1981
• CVE-2010-1994