cve/2009/CVE-2009-2479.md

CVE-2009-2479

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.

POC

Reference

• http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343

Github

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