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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902185
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Mozilla Products 'IFRAME' DoS Vulnerability - Windows
Summary:Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaw is due to improper handling of an 'IFRAME' element
with a mailto: URL in its 'SRC' attribute, which allows remote attackers to
exhaust resources via an HTML document with many 'IFRAME' elements.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to cause a
denial of service.

Affected Software/OS:
Seamonkey version prior to 2.0.4,

Firefox version 3.0.x to 3.0.19, 3.5.x before 3.5.9, 3.6.x before 3.6.2

Solution:
Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.9, 3.6.2

Upgrade to Seamonkey version 2.0.4

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-1990
Bugtraq: 20100518 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera and other browsers (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12386
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG

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