CVE-2009-2479 (GCVE-0-2009-2479)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-07-16 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://osvdb.org/55931 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
Date Public
2009-07-15 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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