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CVE-2009-2479

N/A

Published: July 16, 2009 at 03:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:09 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 12%

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x, 3.5, and 3.5.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and application crash) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method. NOTE: this was originally reported as a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: on Linux and Mac OS X, a crash resulting from this long string reportedly occurs in an operating-system library, not in Firefox.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Firefox · Mozilla

95%

3.0.1 3.0.10 3.0.11 3.0.12 3.0.13 3.0.14 3.0.15 3.0.16 3.0.17 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 3.0.5 3.0.6 3.0.7 3.0.8 3.0.9 3.5 3.5.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html

References (11)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://osvdb.org/55931

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/

Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Source: [email protected]

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploit

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342

CVSS

7.8HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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