CVE-2009-1232

Published Apr 2, 2009

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Vendor comments

  • Red Hathttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485941 Red Hat does not consider a user-assisted crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.

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