National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0220

Overview

The nsObserverList::FillObserverArray function in xpcom/ds/nsObserverList.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted web site that triggers memory consumption and an accompanying Low Memory alert dialog, and also triggers attempted removal of an observer from an empty observers array.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.7/releasenotes/

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.7/releasenotes/

External Source: MISC

Name: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7897

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7897

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507114

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507114

External Source: XF

Name: firefox-nsobserverlist-dos(55550)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/55550

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2010:000

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:000

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8292

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8292

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/51396f6c9f20

Hyperlink:http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/51396f6c9f20

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8292

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8292