Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via JavaScript code that creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values, and then appends long strings to the content of a P element, related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.
References
- 64791 vdb-entry
- 12678 exploit
- http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt
- 20100518 Firefox 3.6.3 (latest) <= memory exhaustion crash vulnerabilities mailing-list
- firefox-javascriptcode-dos(58761) vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12433 vdb-entry signature