Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.
Published: 2009-08-03
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 21.0% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1874-1 New nss packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2025-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-810-1 NSS vulnerabilities
References
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1185.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36088 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36102 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36125 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36139 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36157 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36434 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37098 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/39428 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-273910-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021030.1-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021699.1-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/MARLINSPIKE/BHUSA09-Marlinspike-DefeatSSL-SLIDES.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1874 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:197 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-43.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2010-099504.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1207.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35891 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-810-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-103B.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2085 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512912 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2404 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11174 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8658 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/810-2/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2404 cve-icon
History

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Aol Instant Messenger
Gnome Evolution
Mozilla Firefox Network Security Services Seamonkey Thunderbird
Pidgin Pidgin
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:52:14.939Z

Reserved: 2009-07-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-2404

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Status : Modified

Published: 2009-08-03T14:30:00.610

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

Link: CVE-2009-2404

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2009-07-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2404 - Bugzilla

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