CVE-2009-3078

N/A Unknown

Published: September 10, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Visual truncation vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.14, and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, allows remote attackers to trigger a vertical scroll and spoof URLs via unspecified Unicode characters with a tall line-height property.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/36670

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/36671

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/36692

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/37098

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1885

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-50.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2009_48_firefox.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36343

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022875

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453827

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10871

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5418

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://secunia.com/advisories/36670