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CVE-2009-2404 (GCVE-0-2009-2404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:52
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/M… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/36139 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/36102 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/36157 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103B.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1185.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/39428 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/36434 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/36088 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35891 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://secunia.com/advisories/36125 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512912 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2009-07-30 00:00
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