CVE-2009-1827

medium

Description

The SVG component in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a large value in the r (aka Radius) attribute of a circle element, related to an "unclamped loop."

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8794

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50721

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503825/100/0/threaded

http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/04/advisory-firefox-dos-condition.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0272.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-05/0270.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-05-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H