CVE-2007-5896

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5896
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-11-08 20:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMozilla 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
osvdb.org/45296 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
[Full-disclosure] Firefox 2.0.0.9 remote DoS vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.derkeiler.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
H Tech Blog | Hack and Evolve Faster with the Common Techniques af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.0x000000.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-11-19Joshua BressersRed Hat does not consider this flaw a security issue. This flaw is not exploitable and can only cause a client to stop responding or crash.

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