National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2044

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 35280

Type: Patch Information

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

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-firefox-gif-dos(51037)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51037

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090610 [ECHO_ADV_110$2009] Firefox (GNU/Linux version) <= 3.0.10 Denial Of Services

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

External Source: MISC

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

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