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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800750
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Mozilla Products Denial of Service 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 caused by an error when handling an 'image' tag pointing to
a resource that redirects to a 'mailto:' URL, an external mail handler application is launched.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will let attackers to cause a denial of service
(excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images.

Affected Software/OS:
Seamonkey version prior to 2.0.4 and
Firefox version before 3.5.9, 3.6.x before 3.6.2 on Windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.9 or 3.6.2

Upgrade to Seamonkey version 2.0.4

CVSS Score:
4.3

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-0181
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://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070
http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6776
http://secunia.com/advisories/39136
http://secunia.com/advisories/39397
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2010:013 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0748
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0849
XForce ISS Database: firefox-mailto-weak-security(57395)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57395
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