CVE-2008-2934 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.1 on Mac OS X allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted GIF file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple	Mac Os X
Canonical	Ubuntu Linux
Mozilla	Firefox

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/31132
http://secunia.com/advisories/31270
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020516
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-36.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30266
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2125
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441360
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43850

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-07-18T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:21:34.376Z

Reserved: 2008-06-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2934

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-18T16:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2934

Redhat

No data.

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