CVE-2009-3979

Mozilla crash with evidence of memory corruption

Published Dec 17, 2009 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 4.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1956-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-3950 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-873-1 Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-874-1 Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/37699 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37703 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37704 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37785 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37813 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37856 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37881 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023333 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023334 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1956 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-65.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_63_firefox.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37349 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37361 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-873-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-874-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3547 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293347 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457514 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479931 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494617 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506267 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515811 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516237 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522374 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546694 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54799 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3979 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10956 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8487 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1673.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1674.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-3979 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00995.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01034.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01041.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 6:45 AM
Reserved
Nov 19, 2009, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 17, 2009, 5:30 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:12 PM
Severity
Critical
Public date
Dec 15, 2009, 12:00 AM