CVE-2009-2469

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% 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-399

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12 does not properly handle an SVG element that has a property with a watch function and an __defineSetter__ function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, related to a certain pointer misinterpretation.

Affected products

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

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1162.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35914
http://secunia.com/advisories/35944
http://secunia.com/advisories/36005
http://secunia.com/advisories/36145
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-265068-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020800.1-1
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-37.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972

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