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CVE-2009-0071 Detail

Current Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and earlier 3.0.x versions, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a certain (a) replaceChild or (b) removeChild call, followed by a (1) queryCommandValue, (2) queryCommandState, or (3) queryCommandIndeterm call. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 are also affected.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/19/2009)

Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Firefox to be a security issue.

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Hyperlink Resource
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0220.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0220.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0223.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0223.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0224.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0224.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33154 Exploit 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33154 Exploit 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448329
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448329
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456727
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456727
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472507
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472507
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8091
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8091
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8219
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8219

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-0071
NVD Published Date:
01/08/2009
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
MITRE