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CVE-2009-0775 Detail

Description

Double free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "cloned XUL DOM elements which were linked as a parent and child," which are not properly handled during garbage collection.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00002.html
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm
http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1751
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:075
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-08.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0258.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33990
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021796
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0632
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474456
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5806
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5816
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6207
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7584
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9681
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00769.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00771.html

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-2009-0775
NVD Published Date:
03/04/2009
NVD Last Modified:
09/28/2017
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.