Vulnerability in Xpcom

CVE-2005-2414

Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML file that loads a DOM call from within nested DIV tags, which causes part of the currently rendering page and referenced objects to be deleted.

EPSS: 0.034 (87.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Xpcom
  • N/a — versions n/a

References