Description
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a web page with a large number of IMG elements in which the SRC attribute is a mailto URI. NOTE: another researcher found that the web page caused a temporary browser slowdown instead of a crash.
References
- 20060510 Re: Firefox 1.5.0.3 - DoS mailing-list
- 876 third-party-advisory
- 20060513 Re: Re: Firefox 1.5.0.3 - DoS mailing-list
- http://www.securityview.org/confirmed-bug-in-firefox-1503.html
- 20060506 Firefox 1.5.0.3 - DoS mailing-list