CVE-2021-36773
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-07-18 03:34
Modified
2024-08-04 01:01
Severity ?
Summary
uBlock Origin before 1.36.2 and nMatrix before 4.4.9 support an arbitrary depth of parameter nesting for strict blocking, which allows crafted web sites to cause a denial of service (unbounded recursion that can trigger memory consumption and a loss of all blocking functionality).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/vtriolet/writings/blob/main/posts/2021/ublock_origin_and_umatrix_denial_of_service.adocExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00024.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833752Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/vtriolet/writings/blob/main/posts/2021/ublock_origin_and_umatrix_denial_of_service.adocExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00024.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833752Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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