CVE-2004-1200 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Firefox or Mozilla by tricking users into visiting a page with JavaScript that exhausts memory via nested array operations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2004-1200?
CVE-2004-1200 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 15 Dec 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1200?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mozilla Firefox.
How do I fix CVE-2004-1200?
No fix has been published for CVE-2004-1200 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2004-1200 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1200 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cmw5-xxqm-3g4q.