Mozilla Firefox HTML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:16741

Info

Mozilla Firefox HTML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 16741
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 21 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 22 2006 06:42PM
Credit: Reported by Yuan Qi <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3
+ Gentoo Linux
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2 x86_64
 + Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2
+ Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.2
+ Redhat Desktop 4.0
+ Redhat Desktop 4.0
+ Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 4
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 4
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 4
 + Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 4
 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1
+ Redhat Fedora Core3
 Mozilla Firefox 1.0
+ Gentoo Linux
+ Gentoo Linux
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0 x86_64
 + S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
+ S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0
+ Slackware Linux 10.1
+ Slackware Linux 10.0
+ Slackware Linux 10.0
+ Slackware Linux 9.1
+ Slackware Linux 9.1
+ Slackware Linux -current
 + Slackware Linux -current
Not Vulnerable: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1

Discussion

Mozilla Firefox HTML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability


Mozilla Firefox is prone to a denial-of-service condition when parsing certain malformed HTML content. Successful exploitation will cause the browser to fail or hang.

This issue may be related to BID 11440 Mozilla Invalid Pointer Dereference Vulnerability, but this has not been confirmed.

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 1.5.0.1 are prone to this issue.

Exploit / POC

Mozilla Firefox HTML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability


The following HTML code is sufficient to trigger this issue:

<frameset></frameset>
<table><p><form><map><dl><table><small>

Solution / Fix

References

Mozilla Firefox HTML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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