CVE-2010-1986

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2010-1986 · Published 20/05/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-1986 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 3.6.3`	No fix yet

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via JavaScript code that creates multiple arrays containing elements with long string values, and then appends long strings to the content of a P element, related to the gfxWindowsFontGroup::MakeTextRun function in xul.dll, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-1571.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

firefox

mozilla

= 3.6.3

No fix yet

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