National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0181

Overview

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.9 and 3.6.x before 3.6.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.4, executes a mail application in situations where an IMG element has a SRC attribute that is a redirect to a mailto: URL, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452093

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452093

External Source: XF

Name: firefox-mailto-weak-security(57395)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/57395

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0849

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0849

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0748

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0748

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100518 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera and other browsers

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-23.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-23.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:070

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:070

External Source: MISC

Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/

Hyperlink:http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-921-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-921-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 39397

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/39397

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 39136

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/39136

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6776

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6776

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:013

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6776

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6776