CVE-2009-2479

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 12%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJul 16

1st PoCJul 15

exploitation probability

12%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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 products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/http://osvdb.org/55931 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580