CVE-2009-1232: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.8 and earlier 3.0.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags. NOTE: it was later reported that 3.0.10 and earlier are also affected.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …

Published 2009-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.