cve/2009/CVE-2009-1828.md

CVE-2009-1828

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.

POC

Reference

• http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-denial-of-service.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469565
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8822

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.