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CVE-2010-1987
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.5%
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- mitre
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element, and performs certain other string concatenation and substring operations, related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (6)
- firefox-pelement-dos(58762) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 64790 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12013 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 12678 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.x90c.org/advisories/firefox_3.6.3_crash_advisory.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20100518 Firefox 3.6.3 (latest) <= memory exhaustion crash vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
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- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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