Vulnerability CVE-2009-1232
Published: 2009-04-02   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.10 and earlier are also affected.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Firefox 3.0.x (XML Parser) Memory Corruption / DoS PoC
Anon
05.04.2009

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mozilla -> Firefox 

 References:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485941
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49521
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34522
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8306
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-Firefox-XUL-0day-PoC.rar
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