CVE-2009-0071

Mozilla Firefox <3.0.5 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 and earlier 3.0.x versions, when designMode is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a certain (a) replaceChild or (b) removeChild call, followed by a (1) queryCommandValue, (2) queryCommandState, or (3) queryCommandIndeterm call. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 are also affected.

Exploits (2)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Skylined · htmldosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8219

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exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Skylined · htmldosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8091

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (9)

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0220.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0223.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-01/0224.html

[Exploit] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33154

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448329

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456727

[Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472507

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8091

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8219

Scores

EPSS 0.1086

EPSS Percentile 93.4%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (6)

mozilla/firefox 3.0 (4 CPE variants)

mozilla/firefox 3.0.1

mozilla/firefox 3.0.2

mozilla/firefox 3.0.3

mozilla/firefox 3.0.4

mozilla/firefox 3.0.5

Published Jan 08, 2009

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026