Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element, and performs certain other string concatenation and substring operations, related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.
References
- firefox-pelement-dos(58762) vdb-entry
- 64790 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12013 vdb-entry signature
- 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