PT-2009-4299 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Pavel Cvrcek · Published 2009-06-11 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2009-1834

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.17

Description: A visual truncation issue allows remote attackers to spoof the location bar via an IDN with invalid Unicode characters that are displayed as whitespace. This can be achieved by using specific Unicode characters, such as u115A through u115E, which are displayed as whitespace.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.11, update to version 3.0.11 or later to resolve the issue. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.17, update to version 1.1.17 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-1834

DSA-1820-1

RHSA-2009:1095

RHSA-2009_1095

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

References · 55

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479413 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/33039 · Exploit
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35439 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-25.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1834 · Security Note
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489041 · Note