CVE-2011-3665 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey by sending a malformed Ogg VIDEO element, requiring user interaction to view the content.

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-2011-3665?

CVE-2011-3665 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 21 Dec 2011. 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 4.x through 8.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 8.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an Ogg VIDEO element that is not properly handled after scaling.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-3665?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2011-3665?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-3665 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-2011-3665 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-3665 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-x7h5-4q34-2r6v.

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