CVE-2009-2479
Mozilla Firefox Denial of Service Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
July 16, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
6.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/ Added Reference http://osvdb.org/55931 Added Reference http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/ Added Reference http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 10, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 19, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9158 [Exploit] Added Reference http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 17, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51729 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jul. 16, 2009
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-2479 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2009-2479
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
14.16 }} 3.16%
score
0.93985
percentile