Mozilla Firefox IFRAME Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:15015

Info

Mozilla Firefox IFRAME Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 15015
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 05 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 05 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery is credited to Tom Ferris.
Vulnerable: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Mozilla Firefox IFRAME Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability.

The vulnerability presents itself when an affected browser handles a specially crafted IFRAME.

A successful attack may result in crashing the application, or consuming excessive CPU and memory resources of computers running the affected application.

It should be noted that this issue was reported to affect Firefox 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 running on Linux. Other versions running on different platforms may be vulnerable as well.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Firefox IFRAME Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The following proof of concept is available:
IFRAME WIDTH=33333333

Solution / Fix

Mozilla Firefox IFRAME Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Mozilla Firefox IFRAME Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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