Bug 1704188 (CVE-2018-18510) - CVE-2018-18510 firefox: The about:crashcontent and about:crashparent pages can be triggered by web content allowing for a non-persistent DoS attack.
Summary: CVE-2018-18510 firefox: The about:crashcontent and about:crashparent pages ca...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-18510
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1704189
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Reported: 2019-04-29 09:53 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-02-26 05:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-04-30 03:56:41 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2019-04-29 09:53:29 UTC 
The about:crashcontent and about:crashparent pages can be triggered by web content. These pages are used to crash the loaded page or the browser for test purposes. This issue allows for a DoS attack by a malicious site which links to these pages. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-29/#CVE-2018-18510
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2019-04-30 03:56:44 UTC 
Statement:

This vulnerability did not affect the Firefox 60 ESR stream.
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