Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 16, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2009-2479
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.
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Affected products
20cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 19 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <=3.5.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
11- www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707nvdExploit
- blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/nvd
- osvdb.org/55931nvd
- websecurity.com.ua/3338/nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cginvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729nvd
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.htmlnvd
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