Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2007-5896

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via an iframe with Javascript that sets the document.location to contain a leading NULL byte (\x00) and a (1) res://, (2) about:config, or (3) file:/// URI.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0.0.9
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)