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Sid
15447

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in Firefox.

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Impact:
Denial of Service.   

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Detailed Information:
The XUL parser in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags.

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Affected Systems:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Mozilla Firefox 3.0
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Difficult.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2009-1232:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1232
  
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