SB2017090610 - Denial of service in Mozilla Firefox
Published: September 6, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017090610
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to and error insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted .pdf file, cause the PDF viewer component to hang and Firefox to use a lot of CPU power.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.