PT-2009-6190 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Jonathan Morgan · Published 2009-12-16 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2009-3984

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.16 Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x prior to 3.5.6 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof an SSL indicator for an http URL or a file URL. This is achieved by setting document.location to an https URL corresponding to a site that responds with a No Content status code and an empty body.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 3.0.16, update to version 3.0.16 or later. For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.x prior to 3.5.6, update to version 3.5.6 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.0.1, update to version 2.0.1 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3984

DSA-1956-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2009:1673

RHSA-2009:1674

RHSA-2009_1673

RHSA-2009_1674

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

References · 2093

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-69.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3984 · Security Note
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1674.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1673.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37785 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37704 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1956 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-873-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37703 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37699 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00995.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01041.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_63_firefox.html · Vendor Advisory