CVE-2009-2479

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.

CVSS v2.0

7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

12.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2009-07-16

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

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

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2009-2478
• CVE-2009-2484
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• CVE-2009-2485
• CVE-2009-2473
• CVE-2009-2511