National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2470
Original release date:08/04/2009
Last revised:08/12/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2, allows remote SOCKS5 proxy servers to cause a denial of service (data stream corruption) via a long domain name in a reply.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2142
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 35925
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-38.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8288
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8279
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459524
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-socks5-dos(52252)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022665
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36126