CVE-2007-5896 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and crash) via an iframe with Javascript that sets the document.location to contain a leading NULL byte (\x00) and a (1) res:// (2) about:config or (3) file:/// URI.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/45296 http://www.0x000000.com/index.php?i=467&bin=111010011 http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2007-11/msg00094.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38233