Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mozilla package, versions [,2.0.0.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
3.66% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MOZILLA-2379347
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Jul 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jul 2009

CVE-2009-2535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mozilla to version 2.0.0.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.19 and 3.x before 3.0.5, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692.

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