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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-3985 Detail

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to associate spoofed content with an invalid URL by setting document.location to this URL, and then writing arbitrary web script or HTML to the associated blank document, a related issue to CVE-2009-2654.


Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/37699 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37704 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37785 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37813 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/37856 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/37881 CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023342 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023343 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1956 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-69.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_63_firefox.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37349 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37370 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-873-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-874-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3547 CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514232 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=546726 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54808 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8480 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9911 CVE, MITRE
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1674.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00995.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01034.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01041.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-3985
NVD Published Date:
12/17/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE