Vulnerability Instance
Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.
GET /api/vulnerabilities/2683?format=api
{ "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/2683?format=api", "vulnerability_id": "VCID-d1d9-6j5m-jqbj", "summary": "Jakob Balle and Carsten Eiram of\nSecunia Research reported a race condition\nin NPObjWrapper_NewResolve when accessing the properties\nof a NPObject, a wrapped JSObject. Balle\nand Eiram demonstrated that this condition could be reached by\nnavigating away from a web page during the loading of a Java applet.\nUnder such conditions the Java object would be destroyed but later\ncalled into resulting in a free memory read. It might be possible\nfor an attacker to write to the freed memory before it is reused and run\narbitrary code on the victim's computer.This vulnerability does not affect Firefox 2 nor other\nproducts built using the \"Gecko 1.8\" version of Mozilla code.", "aliases": [ { "alias": "CVE-2009-1837" } ], "fixed_packages": [ { "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/packages/1122?format=api", "purl": "pkg:mozilla/Firefox@3.0.11", "is_vulnerable": false, "affected_by_vulnerabilities": [], "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/packages/pkg:mozilla/Firefox@3.0.11" } ], "affected_packages": [], "references": [ { "reference_url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1837", "reference_id": "CVE-2009-1837", "reference_type": "", "scores": [], "url": "https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1837" }, { "reference_url": "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2009-28", "reference_id": "mfsa2009-28", "reference_type": "", "scores": [ { "value": "critical", "scoring_system": "generic_textual", "scoring_elements": "" } ], "url": "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2009-28" } ], "weaknesses": [], "exploits": [], "severity_range_score": "9.0 - 10.0", "exploitability": null, "weighted_severity": null, "risk_score": null, "resource_url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/vulnerabilities/VCID-d1d9-6j5m-jqbj" }