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Mozilla Firefox Unicode Zero Width Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox Unicode Zero Width Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/23/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/28/2005
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox contain a flaw in the Unicode praser. As a result, a malicious website operator can corrupt stack memory and cause the browser to crash. The possibility of arbitrary code execution is unknown.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_7
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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