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CVE-2009-2044

Date: June 12, 2009

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URI for a large GIF image in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2044

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51037

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496265

Url: http://e-rdc.org/v1/news.php?readmore=137

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504214

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35280

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-2044

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-2044

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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