Vulnerability Details CVE-2009-2975
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by (1) the chromehtml: protocol and (2) the aim: protocol.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.007
EPSS Ranking 72.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0234.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0236.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0246.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52923
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0234.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0236.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0246.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52923
Products affected by CVE-2009-2975
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cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5.2
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:sp2
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:sp3
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:unknown