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Status published
Medium
CVE-2009-3078
Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x...
Vulnerability Description
Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, allows remote attackers to trigger a vertical scroll and spoof URLs via unspecified Unicode characters with a tall line-height property.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1885
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36343
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453827
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5418
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36692
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36670
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36671
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-50.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10871
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022875
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Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.8, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9_rc, 0.10, 0.10.1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5, 1.5.0.6, 1.5.0.7, 1.5.0.8, 1.5.0.9, 1.5.0.10, 1.5.0.11, 1.5.0.12, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.8, 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5, 2.0.0.6, 2.0.0.7, 2.0.0.8, 2.0.0.9, 2.0.0.10, 2.0.0.11, 2.0.0.12, 2.0.0.13, 2.0.0.14, 2.0.0.15, 2.0.0.16, 2.0.0.17, 2.0.0.18, 2.0.0.19, 2.0.0.20, 2.0.0.21, 2.0_.1, 2.0_.4, 2.0_.5, 2.0_.6, 2.0_.7, 2.0_.9, 2.0_.10, 2.0_8, 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, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11, 3.0.12, 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 10th, 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.