FKIE_CVE-2009-2479

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-07-16 15:30 - Updated: 2026-04-23 00:35
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/55931
cve@mitre.orghttp://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/55931
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox 3.0.1
mozilla firefox 3.0.2
mozilla firefox 3.0.3
mozilla firefox 3.0.4
mozilla firefox 3.0.5
mozilla firefox 3.0.6
mozilla firefox 3.0.7
mozilla firefox 3.0.8
mozilla firefox 3.0.9
mozilla firefox 3.0.10
mozilla firefox 3.0.11
mozilla firefox 3.0.12
mozilla firefox 3.0.13
mozilla firefox 3.0.14
mozilla firefox 3.0.15
mozilla firefox 3.0.16
mozilla firefox 3.0.17
mozilla firefox 3.5
mozilla firefox 3.5.1
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