CVE-2009-2479

N/A Unknown
Published: July 16, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://osvdb.org/55931
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://osvdb.org/55931
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
11.2%
94th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

Affected Vendors

mozilla

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