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CVE-2009-3371

CRITICAL
10.0
CVSS Severity Score
EPSS Score0.0260%
EPSS Percentile23.95th
PublishedOct 29, 2009
Last ModifiedApr 23, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by creating JavaScript web-workers recursively.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦
Mozilla

Firefox

= 3.5.1
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Mozilla

Firefox

= 3.5.2
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Mozilla

Firefox

= 3.5.3
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Mozilla

Firefox

= 3.5.4

References & Advisories

🔗 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1
🔗 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294
🔗 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-54.html
🔗 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334
🔗 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514554
🔗 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6464
🔗 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1
🔗 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294

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