Mozilla · Firefox · CVE-2009-2479
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.x, 3.5, and 3.5.1
**Description**
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an uncaught exception and application crash, via a long Unicode string argument to the `write` method. This issue was initially reported as a stack-based buffer overflow.
**Recommendations**
For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.0.x, 3.5, and 3.5.1, consider avoiding the use of long Unicode strings in the `write` method until a fix is available.
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.