firefox 3.5 various flaws
Published Jul 16, 2009
7.8
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 12.09%
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 products
No data.
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.0.6
- 3.0.7
- 3.0.8
- 3.0.9
- 3.0.10
- 3.0.11
- 3.0.12
- 3.0.13
- 3.0.14
- 3.0.15
- 3.0.16
- 3.0.17
- 3.5
- 3.5.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (14 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 12.09% (0.12089) | 96.03th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 12.09% (0.12089) | 95.60th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Feb 1, 2026 | 11.19% (0.11193) | 93.34th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| May 31, 2025 | 14.16% (0.14161) | 93.98th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 11.00% (0.10997) | 92.79th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 13.44% (0.13444) | 90.31th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 11.00% (0.10997) | 92.90th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 6.23% (0.06227) | 93.85th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 24, 2024 | 6.23% (0.06227) | 93.37th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 19, 2023 | 4.49% (0.04494) | 91.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 5.07% (0.05072) | 91.65th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 12.57% (0.12567) | 95.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 12.57% (0.12567) | 95.18th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 12.57% (0.12567) | 90.03th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (15)
- http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://osvdb.org/55931 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35707 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022580 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-2479 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511228 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51729 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2479
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-2479
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00909.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Change history (0)
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