Mozilla Firefox Bug in Processing Unicode Characters Lets Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1022580
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1022580
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CVE Reference: CVE-2009-2479
(Links to External Site)
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Updated: Jul 20 2009
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Original Entry Date: Jul 20 2009
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Impact: Denial of service via network
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Exploit Included: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.5, 3.5.1; possibly other versions
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will cause the target user's browser to crash.
A
demonstration exploit is available at:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9158
Andrew Haynes and Simon Berry-Byrne reported this
vulnerability.
[Editor's note: The bug was originally reported as a stack overflow. However, the vendor has responded that
it is not a stack overflow and that they "do not believe that this represents an exploitable vulnerability."]
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Impact: A remote user can create HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will cause the target user's browser to crash.
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Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.com/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause: State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:34:11 -0400
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9158
CVE-2009-2479
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