--- title: "CVE-2009-2479\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2009-2479?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2009-2479 Publication date 16 July 2009 Last updated 24 July 2024 --- Ubuntu priority **Low** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## 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. ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | firefox-3.5 | 9.04 jaunty | Fixed 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.2 | | 8.10 intrepid | Not in release | | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release | | xulrunner-1.9.1 | 9.04 jaunty | Fixed 1.9.1.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.2 | | 8.10 intrepid | Not in release | | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2479) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2479) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2009-2479) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2479) ### Other references *