Description
The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a splice of an array that contains "some non-set elements," which causes jsarray.cpp to pass an incorrect argument to the ResizeSlots function, which triggers memory corruption; (2) vectors related to js_DecompileValueGenerator, jsopcode.cpp, __defineSetter__, and watch, which triggers an assertion failure or a segmentation fault; and (3) vectors related to gczeal, __defineSetter__, and watch, which triggers a hang.
Published: 2009-03-05
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 9.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1751-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1830-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-0773 The JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.7, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.21, and SeaMonkey 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a splice of an array that contains "some non-set elements," which causes jsarray.cpp to pass an incorrect argument to the ResizeSlots function, which triggers memory corruption; (2) vectors related to js_DecompileValueGenerator, jsopcode.cpp, __defineSetter__, and watch, which triggers an assertion failure or a segmentation fault; and (3) vectors related to gczeal, __defineSetter__, and watch, which triggers a hang.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-728-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34140 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34145 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34272 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34383 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34462 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34464 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34527 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.405420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.433952 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1751 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:075 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:083 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-07.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33990 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021795 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0632 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457521 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467499 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472787 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0773 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10491 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5856 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5980 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6141 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6708 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0773 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg01077.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:48:52.124Z

Reserved: 2009-03-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-0773

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Status : Modified

Published: 2009-03-05T02:30:00.420

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-0773

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2009-03-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-0773 - Bugzilla

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