CVE-2009-0071

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and earlier 3.0.x versions, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a certain (a) replaceChild or (b) removeChild call, followed by a (1) queryCommandValue, (2) queryCommandState, or (3) queryCommandIndeterm call. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 are also affected.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8219

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8091

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472507

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456727

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448329

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0224.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0223.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0220.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-01-08

Updated: 2017-09-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium