CVE-2009-2468

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, as used in Safari before 4.0.3, Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long text run that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during font glyph rendering, a related issue to CVE-2009-1194.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.11; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+87)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35914
http://secunia.com/advisories/36701
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-36.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022717
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480134

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