CVE-2009-2479
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2009-2479 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2009-07-16 15:30:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
NoneIntegrity
NoneAvailability
CompleteAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.10 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.11 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.12 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.13 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.14 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.15 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.16 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.17 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.3 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.4 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.6 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.7 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.8 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.0.9 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 3.5.1 | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox Unicode Data Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | Exploit |
| SecurityFocus | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securityfocus.com | |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.5 unicode Remote Buffer Overflow PoC | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.exploit-db.com | |
| DoS уразливості в Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera та Chrome - Websecurity - Веб безпека | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | websecurity.com.ua | |
| milw0rm 9158 “stack overflow” crash not exploitable (CVE-2009-2479) at Mozilla Security Blog | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | blog.mozilla.com | |
| [SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-5.fc11 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.redhat.com | |
| osvdb.org/55931 | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | osvdb.org | |
| 504343 – Firefox 3.5 unicode stack overflow POC | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.mozilla.org | |
| SecurityTracker.com Archives - Mozilla Firefox Bug in Processing Unicode Characters Lets Remote Users Deny Service | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| IBM X-Force Exchange | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com | |
| 504342 – (CVE-2009-2479) Investigate milw0rm 9158 "unicode stack overflow" | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.mozilla.org | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.