National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3072
Original release date:09/10/2009
Last revised:10/23/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BinHex decoder in netwerk/streamconv/converters/nsBinHexDecoder.cpp, and unknown vectors.
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
**NOTE: Access Complexity scored Low due to insufficient information
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
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508074
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501900
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494283
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0650
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-0648
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-915-1
External Source: BID
Name: 36343
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0154
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0153
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1432
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1431
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1430
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:048
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-47.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1885
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39001
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 38977
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36692
External Source: BID
Name: 36671
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36671
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36670
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36669
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6315
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10349
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:013
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10349
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6315
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5