CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
94.7%
Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800624");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-06-04 07:18:37 +0200 (Thu, 04 Jun 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-1828", "CVE-2009-1827");
script_name("Mozilla Firefox 'keygen' HTML Tag DOS Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8794");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35132");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50721");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-denial-of-service.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will let attackers to cause the browser to stop
responding, infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption, and
can cause denying service to legitimate users.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Firefox version 3.0.4 and 3.0.10 on Windows");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"- Error exists via KEYGEN element in conjunction with a META element
specifying automatic page refresh or a JavaScript onLoad event handler
for a BODY element.
- Error caused while passing a large value in the r (aka Radius) attribute
of a circle element, related to an 'unclamped loop.'.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 3.6.3 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox browser is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(!ffVer){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_equal(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.0.10")||
version_is_equal(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.0.4")){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}