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CVE-2009-1392

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to (1) nsEventStateManager::GetContentState and nsNativeTheme::CheckBooleanAttr; (2) UnhookTextRunFromFrames and ClearAllTextRunReferences; (3) nsTextFrame::ClearTextRun; (4) IsPercentageAware; (5) PL_DHashTableFinish; (6) nsListBoxBodyFrame::GetNextItemBox; (7) AtomTableClearEntry, related to the atom table, DOM mutation events, and Unicode surrogates; (8) nsHTMLEditor::HideResizers; and (9) nsWindow::SetCursor, related to changing the cursor; and other vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 3.0, 3.0-alpha, 3.0-beta2, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3 (+7)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.16; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+20)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.19; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+62)

References

• http://osvdb.org/55144
• http://osvdb.org/55145
• http://osvdb.org/55146
• http://osvdb.org/55147
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1096.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35331
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35415
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35428
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35431
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35439
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35440
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35468

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