Mozilla Firefox 'GIF' File DoS Vulnerability (Nov 2009) - Windows
🗓️ 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2009-3978 | 19 Nov 200900:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2009-3978 | 19 Nov 200900:00 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2009-3949 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| GLSA-201301-01 : Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities (BEAST) | 8 Jan 201300:00 | – | nessus | |
| openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-1597) | 30 Nov 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| SuSE 11 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 1563) | 24 Nov 200900:00 | – | nessus | |
| Mozilla Products: Multiple vulnerabilities | 8 Jan 201300:00 | – | gentoo | |
| CVE-2009-3978 | 19 Nov 200900:30 | – | nvd | |
| Mozilla Firefox 'GIF' File DoS Vulnerability (Nov 2009) - Linux | 20 Nov 200900:00 | – | openvas | |
| Mozilla Firefox 'GIF' File DoS Vulnerability - Nov09 (Windows) | 20 Nov 200900:00 | – | openvas |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900894");
script_version("2025-12-17T05:46:28+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-12-17 05:46:28 +0000 (Wed, 17 Dec 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-11-20 06:52:52 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3978");
script_name("Mozilla Firefox 'GIF' File DoS Vulnerability (Nov 2009) - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525326");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.5.5/Test_Plan");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.1/rev/edf189567edc");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_firefox_detect_portable_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Win/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow remote attacker to cause a vulnerable
application to crash.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version prior to 3.5.5 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A NULL pointer dereference error in 'nsGIFDecoder2::GifWrite' function in
'decoders/gif/nsGIFDecoder2.cpp' in libpr0n, which can be exploited to cause
application crash via an animated 'GIF' file with a large image size.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Firefox version 3.5.5 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS)
vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Win/Ver");
if(!ffVer){
exit(0);
}
if(version_is_less(version:ffVer, test_version:"3.5.5")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:ffVer, fixed_version:"3.5.5");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}
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17 Dec 2025 00:00Current
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CVSS 24.3
EPSS0.01788