Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-2542 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Netscape Navigator 6/8

CVSS 4.3 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

MEDIUM

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

PARTIAL

network

netscape

CWE-399

exploit available

NVD

Published: 2009-07-20

Updated: 2018-10-10

Summary

Netscape 6 and 8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer value for the length property of a Select object, a related issue to CVE-2009-1692.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Netscape Netscape Navigator 6 Netscape Navigator 8	2

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit-Db

id	EDB-ID:9160

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9160
http://www.g-sec.lu/one-bug-to-rule-them-all.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504969/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504988/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504989/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505006/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52876