CVE-2009-2468

Firefox < 3.0.11 - Remote Code Execution via Font Glyph Rendering

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, as used in Safari before 4.0.3, Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.12, and Mac OS X 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long text run that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow during font glyph rendering, a related issue to CVE-2009-1194.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00002.html
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480134
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35758
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022717
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/36701
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/35914
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733

Scores

EPSS 0.0633
EPSS Percentile 92.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-189
Status published
Products (45)
mozilla/firefox 0.1
mozilla/firefox 0.2
mozilla/firefox 0.3
mozilla/firefox 0.4
mozilla/firefox 0.5
mozilla/firefox 0.6
mozilla/firefox 0.6.1
mozilla/firefox 0.7
mozilla/firefox 0.7.1
mozilla/firefox 0.8
... and 35 more
Published Jul 22, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026