Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Xp
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.016 (74.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows Xp
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 3.6.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.osvdb.org/64791 (vdb-entry)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678 (exploit)
- www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt (Exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58761 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12433 (signature, vdb-entry)