CVE-2007-2162

HIGH 7.8CVE-2007-2162 · Published 22/04/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-2162 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting iceweasel (gnu), firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
iceweasel gnu	`= 2.0.0.3`	No fix yet
firefox mozilla	`= 2.0.0.3`	No fix yet

Description

(1) Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 and (2) GNU IceWeasel 2.0.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash or system hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

References

securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/archive/1/466220/100/0/threaded

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