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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2007-1256

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar, favicons, and document source, and perform updates in the context of arbitrary websites, by repeatedly setting document.location in the onunload attribute when linking to another website, a variant of CVE-2007-1092.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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  • Published