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CVE-2009-0352: Mozilla Firefox: Memory corruption

CVE-2009-0352 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Mozilla Firefox. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.6, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the layout engine and destruction of arbitrary layout objects by the nsViewManager::Composite function.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: 3.0; 3.0.1; 3.0.2; 3.0.3; 3.0.4; 3.0.5
  • Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 1.1.13; 1.0; 1.0.1; 1.0.2; 1.0.3; 1.0.5; 1.0.6; 1.0.7; 1.0.8; 1.0.9; 1.1; 1.1 alpha
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: up to and including 2.0.0.19; 1.0; 1.0.1; 1.0.2; 1.0.3; 1.0.4; 1.0.5; 1.0.5 beta; 1.0.6; 1.0.7; 1.0.8; 1.5

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