CVE - CVE-2009-2479

CVE-ID
CVE-2009-2479	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:35707 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707 BUGTRAQ:20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded CONFIRM:http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/ CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342 EXPLOIT-DB:9158 URL:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 FEDORA:FEDORA-2009-7898 URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html MISC:http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/ MISC:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343 OSVDB:55931 URL:~~http://osvdb.org/55931~~ (Obsolete source) SECTRACK:1022580 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580 XF:firefox-unicode-data-dos(51729) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20090716	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20090716)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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