CVE-2009-3077

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, does not properly manage pointers for the columns (aka TreeColumns) of a XUL tree element, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.0.13; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+100)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
http://secunia.com/advisories/36670
http://secunia.com/advisories/36671
http://secunia.com/advisories/36692
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
http://secunia.com/advisories/38977
http://secunia.com/advisories/39001
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1885
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-49.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html

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