Secunia Security Advisory - Tom Ferris has discovered a weakness in Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox Iframe Size Denial of Service Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17071
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17071/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Firefox 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4227/
DESCRIPTION:
Tom Ferris has discovered a weakness in Firefox, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The weakness is caused due to an error in the handling of overly
large size attributes in the "Iframe" tag. This can be exploited to
crash a vulnerable browser via a specially crafted "Iframe" tag on a
malicious web site.
The weakness has been confirmed in version 1.0.7 on Fedora Core 4
(Linux). Other versions and platforms may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Do not browse untrusted web sites.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tom Ferris
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security-protocols.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2978
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