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GHSA-8W37-959H-V45J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-02 03:50 – Updated: 2025-04-09 04:16

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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.

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CVE-2009-3978 (GCVE-0-2009-3978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-19 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:31

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

5 references

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http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.5/releas…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-fi…	x_refsource_MISC
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.5.5/T…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525326	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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GHSA-8W37-959H-V45J

CVE-2009-3978 (GCVE-0-2009-3978)

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