Mozilla Firefox Autocomplete Form Bug Lets Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1018154
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1018154
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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2869
(Links to External Site)
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Date: May 31 2007
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Impact: Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory
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Version(s): 1.5 prior to 1.5.0.12, 2.0 prior to 2.0.0.4
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will cause the target user's browser to hang
for up to several minutes. The vulnerability resides in the autocomplete feature. The effects of such an attack will persist from
session to session until the specially crafted form data is deleted.
Marcel reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (1.5.0.12, 2.0.0.4).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-13.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-13.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:16:24 -0400
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-13.html
CVE-2007-2869
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