CVE-2010-1986

Published: May 20, 2010Modified: Apr 29, 2026

5.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via JavaScript code that creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values, and then appends long strings to the content of a P element, related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

Affected (1)

Products: Mozilla: Firefox

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable · 1 platform

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.6.3

Running on/with	Platform Versions
Microsoft Windows Xp	All versions

Related CWEs

References (12)

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/64791

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58761

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12433

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12678

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.osvdb.org/64791

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511329/100/0/threaded

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Exploit

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58761

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12433

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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