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CVE-2009-1838

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2009-06-12 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2009-1838
Phase Assigned(20090529)

Description

The garbage-collection implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 sets an element's owner document to null in unspecified circumstances, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via a crafted event handler, related to an incorrect context for this event handler.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-29.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489131
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503580
DEBIAN DSA-1820
DEBIAN DSA-1830
FEDORA FEDORA-2009-6366
FEDORA FEDORA-2009-6411
FEDORA FEDORA-2009-7567
FEDORA FEDORA-2009-7614
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2009:141
REDHAT RHSA-2009:1095
REDHAT RHSA-2009:1096
REDHAT RHSA-2009:1125
REDHAT RHSA-2009:1126
SLACKWARE SSA:2009-167-01
SLACKWARE SSA:2009-176-01
SLACKWARE SSA:2009-178-01
SUNALERT 264308
UBUNTU USN-782-1
BID 35326
BID 35383
OSVDB 55157
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11080
SECTRACK 1022397
SECUNIA 35331
SECUNIA 35428
SECUNIA 35431
SECUNIA 35439
SECUNIA 35440
SECUNIA 35468
SECUNIA 35536
SECUNIA 35415
SECUNIA 35561
SECUNIA 35602
SECUNIA 35882
VUPEN ADV-2009-1572