CVE-2009-1827

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The SVG component in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a large value in the r (aka Radius) attribute of a circle element, related to an "unclamped loop."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 3.0.4

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0270.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0271.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0272.html
http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-dos-condition.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503825/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393832
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465615
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50721
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8794
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0270.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0271.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0272.html

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