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CVE-2009-2975 (GCVE-0-2009-2975)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-27 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:07
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Summary
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by (1) the chromehtml: protocol and (2) the aim: protocol.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2009-08-25 00:00
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