CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
80.2%
Firefox browser is prone to Denial of Service vulnerabilities.
# 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900895");
script_version("2024-02-08T05:05:59+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-08 05:05:59 +0000 (Thu, 08 Feb 2024)");
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) - Linux");
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_lin.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Firefox/Linux/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allows remote attacker to cause a vulnerable
application to crash.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Mozilla Firefox version prior to 3.5.5 on Linux.");
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:"Firefox browser is prone to Denial of Service vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ffVer = get_kb_item("Firefox/Linux/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);
}