CVE-2009-1828 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop application hang and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0247.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0263.html http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-denial-of-service.html http://websecurity.com.ua/3194/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503876/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506328/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35132 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469565 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50838 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5928 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8822