CVE-2009-0772

Firefox 2 and 3 - Layout engine crashes

Published Mar 5, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 3.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3 before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to nsCSSStyleSheet::GetOwnerNode, events, and garbage collection, which triggers memory corruption.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1751-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1830-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0772 The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 2 and 3 before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to nsCSSStyleSheet::GetOwnerNode, events, and garbage collection, which triggers memory corruption.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-728-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-728-2 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-728-3 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-741-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00009.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34137 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34140 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34145 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34272 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34324 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34383 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34387 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34417 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34462 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34464 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34527 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.405420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.433952 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1751 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:075 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:083 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-07.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0258.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33990 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021795 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0632 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475136 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0772 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5703 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5945 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6097 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6811 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9609 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/741-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0772 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00769.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00771.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01077.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 4:48 AM
Reserved
Mar 3, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 5, 2009, 2:30 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:05 PM
Severity
Critical
Public date
Mar 4, 2009, 12:00 AM