CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. It affects Firefox. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2009-2404
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
4.15%
Firefox
Original NVD Description
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.