CVE-2007-2162

(1) Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 and (2) GNU IceWeasel 2.0.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash or system hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-04-22

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Iceweasel (Gnu)
• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466220/100/0/threaded