CVE-2007-6715 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-6715?

CVE-2007-6715 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 17 Apr 2008. 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

Mozilla Firefox allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted image, as demonstrated by the zzuf lol-firefox.gif test case.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-6715?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2007-6715?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-6715 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-2007-6715 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-6715 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8vfr-cjhj-gw7x.