Vulnerability Details : CVE-2009-2479

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 15:30:01
Updated 2018-10-10 19:40:33
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: OverflowDenial of service

Products affected by CVE-2009-2479

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-2479

EPSS FAQ
6.23%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 93 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2009-2479

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
7.8
 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
10.0
6.9
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2009-2479

  • The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2009-2479

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