National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3731
Original release date:07/21/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 and earlier allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a form with a multipart/form-data encoding and a user-uploaded file. NOTE: a third party has claimed that this issue might be related to the LiveHTTPHeaders extension.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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We do not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060715 Re: crashing firefox <= 1.5.0.4
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060711 crashing firefox <= 1.5.0.4