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CVE-2010-1987

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2010-05-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long strings to the content of a P element, and performs certain other string concatenation and substring operations, related to the DoubleWideCharMappedString class in USP10.dll and the gfxWindowsFontGroup::GetUnderlineOffset function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMicrosoft Windows Xp

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References