Bug 602059 – CVE-2010-1990 firefox/seamonkey: mail application launch when IFRAME element has a mailto: URI in its SRC attribute

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Bug 602059 - (CVE-2010-1990) CVE-2010-1990 firefox/seamonkey: mail application launch when IFRAME element has a mailto: URI in its SRC attribute

Summary:	CVE-2010-1990 firefox/seamonkey: mail application launch when IFRAME element ...

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2010-1990

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2010-06-09 00:22 EDT by Vincent Danen
Modified:	2010-06-28 14:05 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-06-28 14:05:03 EDT
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-06-09 00:22:39 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-1990 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2010-1990
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1990
Assigned: 20100520
Reference: BUGTRAQ:20100518 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera and other browsers
Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded
Reference: MISC: http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x, 3.5.x, 3.0.19, and earlier, and SeaMonkey,
executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has
a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML
document with many IFRAME elements.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-06-28 14:05:03 EDT

Statement:

The Red Hat Security Response Team does not consider a user assisted denial of service (and potential crash) of end user application, such a Firefox, to be a security issue.

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