CVE-2009-2535

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.19 and 3.x before 3.0.5, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.18; 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.6.1, 0.7 (+69)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+30)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 2.0.0.18; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+62)

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9160
http://www.g-sec.lu/one-bug-to-rule-them-all.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504969/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504988/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504989/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505006/100/0/threaded
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460713
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9160
http://www.g-sec.lu/one-bug-to-rule-them-all.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504969/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504988/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504989/100/0/threaded

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