Race condition vulnerability in xpcom library can cause denial of service in web browsers

CVE-2005-2414 · LOW Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Race condition in the xpcom library, as used by web browsers such as Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, and Galeon, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large HTML file that loads a DOM call from within nested DIV tags, which causes part of the currently rendering page and referenced objects to be deleted.

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