CVE-2009-2470 — Improper Input Validation in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedAug 4
Latest updateMay 2

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote SOCKS5 proxy servers to cause a denial of service (data stream corruption) via a long domain name in a reply.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox3.5.1+93

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-gwmw-74gj-55qx: Mozilla Firefox before 3↗2022-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
Mozilla data corruption with SOCKS5 reply↗2009-07-21
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2009-2470 Mozilla data corruption with SOCKS5 reply↗2009-07-16
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