CVE-2009-2975 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via memory consumption in Firefox by exploiting protocol handler misconfigurations, requiring user interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2009-2975?
CVE-2009-2975 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 27 Aug 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2975?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mozilla Firefox.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2975?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2975 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2009-2975 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2975 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g93w-x36g-q7gg.