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CVE-2009-2479 Detail

Current 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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Hyperlink Resource
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
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/35707 Exploit 
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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-2479
NVD Published Date:
07/16/2009
NVD Last Modified:
10/10/2018
Source:
MITRE