Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5419  

If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system. This is a denial of service (DOS) attack.

Severity Low

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

If a malicious site repeatedly triggers a modal authentication prompt, eventually the browser UI will become non-responsive, requiring shutdown through the operating system. This is a denial of service (DOS) attack.

AVG-194 firefox 51.0.1-1 52.0-1 Critical Fixed

10 Mar 2017 ASA-201703-3 AVG-194 firefox Critical multiple issues

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-05/#CVE-2017-5419
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1312243