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CVE-2009-2479

HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 12.1%EU EUVD

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.

Key facts

CVSS score
7.8 (v2.0)
Severity
HIGH
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-119
EPSS score
12.1% (96th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2009-2474)
Published
July 16, 2009
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2474 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox
  • mozilla / firefox

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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