CVE-2009-3987 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-3987 at MITRE

Description

The GeckoActiveXObject function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, generates different exception messages depending on whether the referenced COM object is listed in the registry, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information about installed software by making multiple calls that specify the ProgID values of different COM objects.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 559807 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:020, published Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 17:16:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:36:07 2023