CVE-2009-1232

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.10 and earlier are also affected.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2009-04-02

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-Firefox-XUL-0day-PoC.rar
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34522
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485941
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49521
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8306