CVE-2009-2044

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URI for a large GIF image in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51037

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-2040

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496265

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35280

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504214

http://e-rdc.org/v1/news.php?readmore=137

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-06-12

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H