National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1828
Original release date:05/29/2009
Last revised:06/09/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469565
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-keygen-dos(50838)
External Source: BID
Name: 35132
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090528 [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 8822
External Source: MISC
Name: http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-denial-of-service.html
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20090528 Re: [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20090527 [TZO-27-2009] Firefox Denial of Service (Keygen)