CVE-2009-2479: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Jul 16 2009(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.17 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.7 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.9 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.8 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.5 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.4 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.5 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.5.1 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.14 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.10 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.12 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.3 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.6 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.15 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.1 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.2 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.13 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.16 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | =3.0.11 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707
- http://osvdb.org/55931
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
- http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/nvd-historical
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/mozilla
- canonical/mozilla firefox
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.17
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.7
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.9
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.8
- version/mozilla firefox/3.5
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.4
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.5
- version/mozilla firefox/3.5.1
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.14
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.10
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.12
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.3
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.6
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.15
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.1
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.2
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.13
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.16
- version/mozilla firefox/3.0.11