CVE-2009-1232 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2009-1232

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers...

4.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

mozilla

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Affected Software

firefox

Vulnerable Versions:

3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8

Timeline

Official Publish: April 2nd, 2009

Last Modified: August 7th, 2024

Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.