Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by (1) the chromehtml: protocol and (2) the aim: protocol.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2009-2960 | Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by (1) the chromehtml: protocol and (2) the aim: protocol. |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T06:07:37.402Z
Reserved: 2009-08-27T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2009-2975
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Status : Modified
Published: 2009-08-27T17:30:00.343
Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467
Link: CVE-2009-2975
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Weaknesses
EUVD