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MFSA2014-20 Firefox: onbeforeunload and Javascript navigation DOS (CVE-2014-1500)

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MFSA2014-20 Firefox: onbeforeunload and Javascript navigation DOS (CVE-2014-1500)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/18/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/19/2014
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and application hang) via onbeforeunload events that trigger background JavaScript execution.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-28_0

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