Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by (1) the chromehtml: protocol and (2) the aim: protocol.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T06:07:37.402Z
Reserved: 2009-08-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-2975

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-08-27T17:30:00.343
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-2975

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