Hang Issue Caused by Mishandling of Long URL in Brave Browser

CVE-2018-10799 · MEDIUM Severity

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

A hang issue was discovered in Brave before 0.14.0 (on, for example, Linux). This vulnerability is caused by the mishandling of a long URL formed by window.location+='?\u202a\uFEFF\u202b'; concatenation in a SCRIPT element.

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