National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2479

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-7898

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342

External Source: XF

Name: firefox-unicode-data-dos(51729)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51729

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022580

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580

External Source: BID

Name: 35707

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 9158

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9158

External Source: MISC

Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/

Hyperlink:http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 55931

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/55931

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/

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