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title: "CVE-2009-2044\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2009-2044

Publication date 12 June 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (application crash) via a URI for a large GIF
image in the BACKGROUND attribute of a BODY element.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-2044?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| firefox | 9.10 karmic | Not in release |
| 9.04 jaunty | Not in release |
| 8.10 intrepid | Not in release |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored end of life |
| xulrunner-1.9 | 9.10 karmic | Not in release |
| 9.04 jaunty | Ignored end of life |
| 8.10 intrepid | Ignored end of life |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored end of life |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |
| xulrunner-1.9.1 | 9.10 karmic | Not affected |
| 9.04 jaunty | Fixed 1.9.1.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.2 |
| 8.10 intrepid | Not in release |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

CVEs in Firefox are tracked in the xulrunner source packages. The
mapping of xulrunner sources to firefox is:
xulrunner (1.8.0): firefox (1.5) - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
xulrunner (1.8.1): firefox (2.0) - Ubuntu 6.10 - 8.04 LTS
xulrunner-1.9: firefox-3.0
xulrunner-1.9.1: firefox-3.5
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 10.04 LTS uses the embedded xulrunner and not
the system xulrunner-1.9.2, so it is tracked in the firefox source package.
Upstream won't fix the 1.9.0 branch "due to risk". See comment #29
in upstream bug #424333.

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2044)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2044)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2009-2044)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2044)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2044>