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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.

Published

2009-07-16T15:30:00.813

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-119
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.1 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.2 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.3 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.4 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.5 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.6 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.7 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.8 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.9 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.10 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.11 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.12 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.13 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.14 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.15 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.16 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.0.17 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.5 Yes
Application mozilla firefox 3.5.1 Yes
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