CVE-2009-3382 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before version 3.0.15, stemming from improper handling of first-letter frames in its browser engine. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it poses a severe risk of denial of service (application crash) and potential arbitrary code execution, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog and showing no social media or media coverage, an exploit for remote memory corruption is available on ExploitDB, indicating its exploitability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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