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HistoryJan 13, 2010 - 12:00 a.m.

Firefox 'nsObserverList::FillObserverArray' DOS Vulnerability - Windows

2010-01-1300:00:00
Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG
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8

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

9.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.017 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.0%

Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800416");
  script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-01-13 15:42:20 +0100 (Wed, 13 Jan 2010)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-0220");
  script_name("Firefox 'nsObserverList::FillObserverArray' DOS Vulnerability - Windows");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7897");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507114");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.7/releasenotes");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful remote exploitation will allow attackers to  crash application
  via a crafted web site that triggers memory consumption and an accompanying
  Low Memory alert dialog, and also triggers attempted removal of an observer from an empty observers array.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version prior to 3.5.7 on Windows.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to error in 'nsObserverList::FillObserverArray()' function
  in 'xpcom/ds/nsObserverList.cpp'");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.7");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");

firefoxVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(!firefoxVer){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_is_less(version:firefoxVer, test_version:"3.5.7")){
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:firefoxVer, fixed_version:"3.5.7");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

9.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.017 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.0%