CVE-2009-2479

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.

References

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343

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

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

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

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

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

http://osvdb.org/55931

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3