CVE-2009-3072
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.24, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the BinHex decoder in netwerk/streamconv/converters/nsBinHexDecoder.cpp, and unknown vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 5.3% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3056)
- Published
- September 10, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3056 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36669
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36670
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36671
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36692
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37098
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38977
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39001
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1885
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-47.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-07.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1431.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1432.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36343
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494283
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501900
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508074
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10349
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6315
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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