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CVE-2007-2162

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

(1) Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 and (2) GNU IceWeasel 2.0.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash or system hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

Affected products

• GNU Iceweasel: 2.0.0.3
• Mozilla Firefox: 2.0.0.3

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466220/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466220/100/0/threaded

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