CVE-2009-2479
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x, 3.5, 3.5.1 - Denial of Service via Long Unicode String to write Method
Title source: llmExploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2009-2479. PoCs published by Andrew Haynes.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a Unicode stack overflow vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 by generating a large string of Unicode characters to trigger a buffer overflow. The PoC uses JavaScript to create and concatenate strings to achieve the overflow condition.
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a Unicode stack overflow vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 by generating a large string of Unicode characters to trigger a buffer overflow. The PoC uses JavaScript to create and concatenate strings to achieve the overflow condition.