### [CVE-2009-2479](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2479)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/07/19/milw0rm-9158-stack-overflow-crash-not-exploitable-cve-2009-2479/
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9158
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504342
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504343

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.