CVE-2009-2469

Impact

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 does not properly handle an SVG element that has a property with a watch function and an __defineSetter__ function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, related to a certain pointer misinterpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35914
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35944
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36005
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36145
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265068-1
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020800.1-1
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-37.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2152
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488995
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10030
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01032.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35914
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35944
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36005
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36145
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265068-1
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020800.1-1