National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2468
Original release date:07/22/2009
Last revised:08/15/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, as used in Safari before 4.0.3, Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long text run that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during font glyph rendering, a related issue to CVE-2009-1194.
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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480134
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1972
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022717
External Source: BID
Name: 35758
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-36.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 264308
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35914
Type: Advisory
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2009-08-11-1