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CVE-2009-2478

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a "flash bug."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 3.5

References

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502648
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503286
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502648
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503286
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html

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