Mozilla Firefox Href Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	23747
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2007-2671
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 01 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:39PM
Credit:	Carl Hardwick is credited with discovering this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Mozilla Firefox 2.0 .3
Not Vulnerable:

Mozilla Firefox Href Denial of Service Vulnerability

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

An attacker may exploit this issue by enticing victims into opening a maliciously crafted HTML document.

Successful exploits can allow attackers to crash the affected browser, resulting in denial-of-service conditions.

Firefox 2.0.0.3 is prone to this issue; other versions may also be affected.

Mozilla Firefox Href Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following exploit is availble:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/23747.html

Mozilla Firefox Href 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 if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Mozilla Firefox Href Denial of Service Vulnerability

References:

• Mozilla Homepage (Mozilla Foundation)