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CVE-2009-2479

Published: Jul 16, 2009

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

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

x_refsource_MISC

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

FEDORA-2009-7898

vendor-advisory

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exploit

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

x_refsource_CONFIRM

20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome

mailing-list

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vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

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

x_refsource_MISC

vdb-entry

x_refsource_OSVDB

firefox-unicode-data-dos(51729)

vdb-entry

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