CVE-2009-1838 (GCVE-0-2009-1838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-06-12 21:07 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
VLAI?
Summary
The garbage-collection implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 sets an element's owner document to null in unspecified circumstances, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via a crafted event handler, related to an incorrect context for this event handler.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489131 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1096.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/35536 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35602 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-11… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/35440 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-782-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/35428 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35431 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35468 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35439 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35882 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35415 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35383 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://osvdb.org/55157 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/35561 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503580 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-11… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022397 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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    "dateReserved": "2009-05-29T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-07T05:27:54.417Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.1"
}


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Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.




Sightings

Author Source Type Date

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.