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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5928 Date: 2009-09-23
Title: Mozilla Firefox 'keygen' HTML Tag Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.
Version: 1 Class: vulnerability
Status: ACCEPTED Reference(s): CVE-2009-1828
Family: windows
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
Product(s): Mozilla Firefox
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