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CVE-2009-2975
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2009-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP, in some situations possibly involving an incompletely configured protocol handler, does not properly implement setting the document.location property to a value specifying a protocol associated with an external application, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving a series of function calls that set this property, as demonstrated by (1) the chromehtml: protocol and (2) the aim: protocol.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox: 3.5.2
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0234.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0236.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0246.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52923
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0234.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0236.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-08/0246.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52923
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