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.
Published: 2009-07-16
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 11.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:52:14.838Z

Reserved: 2009-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-2479

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-07-16T15:30:00.813

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-2479

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2479 - Bugzilla

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