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);
}