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.

• CWE-119

• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
• http://osvdb.org/55931
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707Exploit
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
• http://osvdb.org/55931
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707Exploit
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html

Published

Jul 16, 2009

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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