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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-3978: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-3978: Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/18/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The nsGIFDecoder2::GifWrite function in decoders/gif/nsGIFDecoder2.cpp in libpr0n in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an animated GIF file with a large image size, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3373.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-nss
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-mozilla-thunderbird
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-mozilla-thunderbird-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbird
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-mail-client-thunderbird-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-xulrunner
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-libs-xulrunner-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-firefox
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-firefox-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-icecat
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-mozilla-firefox
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-mozilla-firefox-bin
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-seamonkey
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-seamonkey-bin

References

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