CVE-2010-0220

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The nsObserverList::FillObserverArray function in xpcom/ds/nsObserverList.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) 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.

The nsObserverList::FillObserverArray function in xpcom/ds/nsObserverList.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 15 years ago

2010-01-07 19:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-19 01:30:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 0.1

0.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.2

0.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.3

0.3

Mozilla Firefox 0.4

0.4

Mozilla Firefox 0.5

0.5

Mozilla Firefox 0.6

0.6

Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1

0.6.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.7

0.7

Mozilla Firefox 0.7.1

0.7.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.8

0.8

Mozilla Firefox 0.9

0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 rc

0.9

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1

0.9.1

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2

0.9.2

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

0.9.3

Mozilla Firefox 0.10

0.10

Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1

0.10.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.0

1.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release

1.0

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3

1.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

1.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6

1.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7

1.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.8

1.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 1.4.1

1.4.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1

1.5.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2

1.5.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3

1.5.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

1.5.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5

1.5.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6

1.5.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7

1.5.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8

1.5.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.9

1.5.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.10

1.5.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.11

1.5.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12

1.5.0.12

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.1

1.5.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.2

1.5.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.3

1.5.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.4

1.5.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.5

1.5.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.6

1.5.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.7

1.5.7

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.8

1.5.8

Mozilla Firefox 1.8

1.8

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

2.0

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1

2.0.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2

2.0.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3

2.0.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4

2.0.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5

2.0.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6

2.0.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7

2.0.0.7

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8

2.0.0.8

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9

2.0.0.9

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10

2.0.0.10

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11

2.0.0.11

Mozilla Firefox 3.0

3.0

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5

3.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5

3.5

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2

3.5.2

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3

3.5.3

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4

3.5.4

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5

3.5.5

Mozilla Firefox

References

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/51396f6c9f20

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7897

MDVSA-2010:000

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.7/releasenotes/

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507114

firefox-nsobserverlist-dos(55550)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8292

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