CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2479

7.8 HIGH Published 2009-07-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-07-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119

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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 3.0.1 • mozilla firefox 3.0.2 • mozilla firefox 3.0.3 • mozilla firefox 3.0.4 • mozilla firefox 3.0.5 • mozilla firefox 3.0.6 • mozilla firefox 3.0.7 • mozilla firefox 3.0.8 • mozilla firefox 3.0.9 • mozilla firefox 3.0.10 • mozilla firefox 3.0.11 • mozilla firefox 3.0.12 • mozilla firefox 3.0.13 • mozilla firefox 3.0.14 • mozilla firefox 3.0.15 • mozilla firefox 3.0.16 • mozilla firefox 3.0.17 • mozilla firefox 3.5 • mozilla firefox 3.5.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References