CVE-2009-2479

Published: Jul 16, 2009Modified: Apr 23, 2026

7.8

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 6.9

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (19)

Products: Mozilla: Firefox

1 product

Configuration A

19 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.10
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.11
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.12
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.13
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.14
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.15
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.16
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.17
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.1
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.2
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.3
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.4
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.5
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.6
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.7
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.8
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.0.9
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.5.1
Mozilla Firefox	Version 3.5

Related CWEs

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (22)

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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