CVE-2010-0220 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/51396f6c9f20 http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7897 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:000 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.7/releasenotes/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507114 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55550 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A8292