PT-2009-4878 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Will Drewry · Published 2009-07-22 · Updated 2009-09-16 · CVE-2009-2468

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Safari versions prior to 4.0.3 Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.12 Mac OS X versions 10.4.11 and 10.5.8

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in Apple CoreGraphics, which can be triggered by a long text run. This can cause a heap-based buffer overflow during font glyph rendering, potentially leading to a denial of service (application crash) or execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Safari versions prior to 4.0.3, update to version 4.0.3 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.12, update to version 3.0.12 or later. For Mac OS X versions 10.4.11 and 10.5.8, consider upgrading to a later version of Mac OS X that incorporates the fix for this issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2468

Affected Products

Coregraphics

Macos X

Firefox

Safari

References · 13

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2468 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1972 · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35914 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-36.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/35758 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36701 · Note
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3865 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022717 · Note
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3733 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480134 · Note