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 18 Feb 2008 @ 9:29 PM 
 

Mozilla Firefox IFrame Recursion Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

 

Bugtraq ID: 27812
Class: Design Error
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 15 2008 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 15 2008 11:05PM
Credit: carl hardwick is credited with the discovery of this issue.

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because of the way the browser handles IFrames.

Attackers can exploit this issue to make the browser unresponsive and cause denial-of-service conditions.

Firefox 2.0.0.12 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

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Categories: Firefox
Posted By: ShadowPuterDude
Last Edit: 17 Mar 2008 @ 10 32 PM
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