CVE-2009-3978
Mozilla Firefox GIF Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description
The nsGIFDecoder2::GifWrite function in decoders/gif/nsGIFDecoder2.cpp in libpr0n in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an animated GIF file with a large image size, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3373.
INFO
Published Date :
Nov. 19, 2009, 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/edf189567edc Added Reference http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-fixes-critical-bugs-with-Firefox-3-5-5-852070.html Added Reference http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.5/releasenotes/ Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525326 Added Reference https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.5.5/Test_Plan -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Nov. 19, 2009
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-3978 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2009-3978
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.71 }} -0.55%
score
0.69848
percentile