National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3980
Original release date:12/17/2009
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.6, SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-3547
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-65.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-13366
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-13362
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-13333
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495875
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470487
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-browser-eng-code-exec(54800)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-874-1
External Source: BID
Name: 37362
External Source: BID
Name: 37349
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2009:063
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023334
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023333
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37881
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37856
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37785
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37699
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8503
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8503
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)