DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2404

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2404 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Heap-based buffer overflow in a regular-expression parser in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, as used in Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Evolution, Pidgin, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allows remote SSL servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, related to the cert_TestHostName function.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	nss	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	nss	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	nss	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	nss	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Aug 3, 2009 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2404 advisory

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