CVE-2009-2465 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-3995 documents5 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
4.3%
top 11.07%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedJul 22
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving double frame construction, related to (1) nsHTMLContentSink.cpp, (2) nsXMLContentSink.cpp, and (3) nsPresShell.cpp, and the nsSubDocumentFrame::Reflow function.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.0.11+82
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird21 versions+20

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-7x2r-cg6w-8rwf: Mozilla Firefox before 3↗2022-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2009-07-22
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Red Hat
Mozilla double frame construction crashes↗2009-07-21
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-2465 Mozilla double frame construction crashes↗2009-07-16
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