CVE-2009-2479
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.
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.1%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.8 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 12.09% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- mozilla/firefox
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
- http://osvdb.org/55931
- 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/35707Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
- 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://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
- http://osvdb.org/55931
- 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/35707Exploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
- 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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.