PT-2009-4886 · Mozilla · Firefox

Fernando Hartmann + 1 · Published 2009-07-16 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-2479

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2479

Affected Products

Firefox

References · 13

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/35707 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2479 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3338 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/55931 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022580 · Note