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CVE-2009-2466 Detail

Description

The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 and Thunderbird allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) nsDOMClassInfo.cpp, (2) JS_HashTableRawLookup, and (3) MirrorWrappedNativeParent and js_LockGCThingRT.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1163.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35914 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35943 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35944 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35947 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36145 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265068-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020800.1-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-34.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2152 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454704 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465980 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493281 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494445 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9820 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01032.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-2466
NVD Published Date:
07/22/2009
NVD Last Modified:
06/25/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.