CVE-2009-1044 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

CWE-3995 documents5 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.8%
top 7.99%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedMar 23
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors related to the _moveToEdgeShift XUL tree method, which triggers garbage collection on objects that are still in use, as demonstrated by Nils during a PWN2OWN competition at CanSecWest 2009.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.0.7

Patches

Patch: www.mozilla.org ↗Patch: www.securityfocus.com ↗Patch: www.vupen.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-x5jm-2j58-gxgp: Mozilla Firefox 3↗2022-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2009-03-28
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Red Hat
Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)↗2009-03-27
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-1044 Firefox XUL garbage collection issue (cansecwest pwn2own)↗2009-03-25
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