CVE-2009-1302: mozilla firefox Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2009-1302 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 2.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 5 public exploits are recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 2Timeline
- 22-04-2009PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
2.90%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
87%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 2.90% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
5 foundExploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Mozilla3 products
- firefox3.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.8
- seamonkey≤ 1.1.13 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1:alpha | 1.1:beta | 1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3 | 1.1.4 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.7 | 1.1.8 | 1.1.9 | 1.1.10 | 1.1.11 | 1.1.12 | 1.1.14 | 1.1.15
- thunderbird≤ 2.0.0.19 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.5:beta | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.5 | 1.5:beta2 | 1.5.0.1 | 1.5.0.2 | 1.5.0.3 | 1.5.0.4 | 1.5.0.5 | 1.5.0.6 | 1.5.0.7 | 1.5.0.8 | 1.5.0.9 | 1.5.0.10 | 1.5.0.11 | 1.5.0.12 | 1.5.0.13 | 1.5.0.14 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.2 | 2.0.0.0 | 2.0.0.4 | 2.0.0.5 | 2.0.0.6 | 2.0.0.9 | 2.0.0.12 | 2.0.0.14 | 2.0.0.16 | 2.0.0.17 | 2.0.0.18 | 2.0.0.20 | 2.0.0.21
1 vendor · 3 products
References
35 links- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00683.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA
- www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.454275Vendor AdvisoryX Refsource SLACKWARE
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461053X Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5527VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
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- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6070VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10106VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6170VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477775X Refsource CONFIRM
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462517X Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7030VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428113X Refsource CONFIRM