National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0775
Original release date:03/05/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Double free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "cloned XUL DOM elements which were linked as a parent and child," which are not properly handled during garbage collection.
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:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-2884
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-2882
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474456
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0632
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021796
External Source: BID
Name: 33990
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0325
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0315
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0258
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-08.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:075
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1751
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34417
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34383
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34324
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34272
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34145
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34140
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34137
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9681
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7584
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6207
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5816
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5806
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:012
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5816
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9681
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7584
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5806
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6207
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)