National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0773
Original release date:03/05/2009
Last revised:08/25/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a splice of an array that contains "some non-set elements," which causes jsarray.cpp to pass an incorrect argument to the ResizeSlots function, which triggers memory corruption; (2) vectors related to js_DecompileValueGenerator, jsopcode.cpp, __defineSetter__, and watch, which triggers an assertion failure or a segmentation fault; and (3) vectors related to gczeal, __defineSetter__, and watch, which triggers a hang.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472787
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-3101
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467499
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457521
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0632
External Source: BID
Name: 33990
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-07.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:083
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:075
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1830
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1751
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2009-083-03
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2009-083-02
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34527
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34464
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34462
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34383
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34272
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34145
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:012
