Mozilla Browser xpcom Race Condition Lets Remote Users Crash the Browser
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1014548 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1014548
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2005-2414
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: Jul 6 2008
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Original Entry Date: Jul 21 2005
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 1.7.10
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in the Mozilla browser in the cross platform component object model (xpcom) implementation. A remote user can cause a target user's browser to crash.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will exploit a race condition in executing dom calls to delete objects in the page before they have been referenced. As a result, an access violation will occur and the target user's browser will crash.
A demonstration exploit is available at:
http://www.gulftech.org/wrecko.html
James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can cause a target user's browser to crash.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix for the Mozilla development trunk.
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/ (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:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:30:35 -0400
Subject: http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00091-07212005
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> Mozilla XPCOM Library Race Condition
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