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Asymmetric denial of service In cairo

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URI for a large GIF image in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Package
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2009-20442. NVD-2009-20443. OSV-DEBIAN-2009-20444. OSV-2009-20445. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2009-2044

References

1. https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33031

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