# CVE-2009-1302: The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.9, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.16 allows remote attackers to

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2009-04-22 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.9, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly trigger memory corruption via vectors related to (1) nsAsyncInstantiateEvent::Run, (2) nsStyleContext::Destroy, (3) nsComputedDOMStyle::GetWidth, (4) the xslt_attributeset_ImportSameName.html test case for the XSLT stylesheet compiler, (5) nsXULDocument::SynchronizeBroadcastListener, (6) IsBindingAncestor, (7) PL_DHashTableOperate and nsEditor::EndUpdateViewBatch, and (8) gfxSkipCharsIterator::SetOffsets, and other vectors.

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## References

- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:111
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00683.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34894
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1125
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.454275
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34758
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461053
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35602
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5527
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6070
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454276
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10106
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483444
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432114
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6170
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35065
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477775
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431260
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/764-1/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:141
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35042
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34656
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467881

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