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CVE-2009-2479

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2009-07-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

CWE-119

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