First published: Wed Dec 15 2004(Updated: )
Firefox and Mozilla allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Mozilla Firefox | =0.8 | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.9.1 | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.10.1 | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.9 | |
Mozilla Firefox | =preview_release | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.9.3 | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.9.2 | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.9-rc | |
Mozilla Firefox | =0.10 |
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CVE-2004-1200 is categorized as a denial of service vulnerability that can result in application crashes.
CVE-2004-1200 affects Firefox versions 0.8, 0.9, 0.10, and their specific subversions.
To fix CVE-2004-1200, upgrade to a version of Firefox that is not affected by this vulnerability.
CVE-2004-1200 describes an attack that causes denial of service through excessive memory consumption via nested arrays in JavaScript.
CVE-2004-1200 is specific to Firefox and does not directly exploit other Mozilla products.