Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.10 and earlier are also affected.
Public exploits
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Exploit-DB 1
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x - XML Parser Memory Corruption / Denial of Service (PoC) EDB-8306 · dos · Mar 30, 2009 · verified
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