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CVE-2009-2044

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URI for a large GIF image in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.10

References

• http://e-rdc.org/v1/news.php?readmore=137
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504214
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35280
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496265
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51037
• http://e-rdc.org/v1/news.php?readmore=137
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504214
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35280
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496265
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51037

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