Title: SeaMonkey 1.1.11 Remote Denial of Service Exploit PoC
Advisory ID: ZSL-2008-4896
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: DoS
Risk: (4/5)
Release Date: 08.09.2008

Summary

Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple - all your Internet needs in one application.

Description

SeaMonkey suffers from a remote denial of service vulnerability (DoS), using a special html file with the <marquee> tag multiple times (>24). Successfully exploiting these issues allows remote attackers to cause the application to freeze, denying service to legitimate users.

Vendor

Mozilla Foundation - http://www.seamonkey-project.org

Affected Version

1.1.11

Tested On

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 (English)

Vendor Status

N/A

PoC

seamonkey_dos.html

Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>

References

[1] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31070
[2] http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/filedesc/seamonkey-dos.txt.html
[3] http://it.com.mk/index.php/Gjoko-Krstic/Sigurnost/SeaMonkey-1.1.11-Remote-Denial-of-Service-Exploit-PoC

Changelog

[08.09.2008] - Initial release
[09.09.2008] - Added reference [3]

Contact

Zero Science Lab

Web: http://www.zeroscience.mk
e-mail: lab@zeroscience.mk