National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1232
Original release date:04/02/2009
Last revised:08/07/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/27/2009)
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https://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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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485941
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-xml-dos(49521)
External Source: BID
Name: 34522
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 8306
External Source: MISC
Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
External Source: MISC
Name: http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-Firefox-XUL-0day-PoC.rar