Summary
The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will let attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many images.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.9 or 3.6.2
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Upgrade to Seamonkey version 2.0.4
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
Insight
The flaw is caused by an error when handling an 'image' tag pointing to a resource that redirects to a 'mailto:' URL, an external mail handler application is launched.
Affected
Seamonkey version prior to 2.0.4 and
Firefox version before 3.5.9, 3.6.x before 3.6.2 on Windows.
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-0181 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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