PT-2009-6191 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Jordi Chancel · Published 2009-12-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2009-3985

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 associate spoofed content with an invalid URL. This is achieved by setting document.location to the URL and then writing arbitrary web script or HTML to the associated blank document.

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-2009-3985

DSA-1956-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

RHSA-2009:1674

RHSA-2009_1674

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

References · 933

• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-69.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37785 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37704 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_63_firefox.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1956 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-873-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg01034.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3547 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37699 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1674.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023342 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3985 · Security Note
• 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