CVE-2009-2044: Mozilla Firefox

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URI for a large GIF image in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 3.0.10

Published 2009-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.