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CVE-2009-2465: Mozilla Firefox: Memory corruption

CVE-2009-2465 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

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or execute arbitrary code via vectors involving double frame construction, related to (1) nsHTMLContentSink.cpp, (2) nsXMLContentSink.cpp, and (3) nsPresShell.cpp, and the nsSubDocumentFrame::Reflow 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: up to and including 3.0.11; 0.1; 0.2; 0.3; 0.4; 0.5; 0.6; 0.6.1; 0.7; 0.7.1; 0.8; 0.9
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: 2.0.0.0; 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; 2.0.0.11; 2.0.0.12

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