National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2479

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long Unicode string argument to the write method.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: firefox-unicode-data-bo(51729)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/51729

External Source: BID

Name: 35707

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 9158

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9158