CVE-2009-1828

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-1828
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-05-29 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMozilla Firefox 3.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, application hang, and memory consumption) via a KEYGEN element in conjunction with (1) a META element specifying automatic page refresh or (2) a JavaScript onLoad event handler for a BODY element. NOTE: it was later reported that earlier versions are also affected.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
DoS уразливості в Firefox, IE, Chrome та Opera - Websecurity - Веб безпека af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 websecurity.com.ua
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Secdev - Thierry Zoller: Advisory : Firefox Denial of Service (KEYGEN) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.zoller.lu Exploit
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0247.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com Exploit
Mozilla Firefox 'keygen' HTML Tag Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 - 'KEYGEN' Remote Denial of Service - Multiple dos Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-05/0263.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com
469565 – (CVE-2009-1828) Keygen Tag endless loop and (not always reproducable) Memory corruption [@ NSSRWLock_LockRead_Util] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit
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