National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2934
Original release date:07/18/2008
Last revised:04/16/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (07/21/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441360
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-gif-code-execution(43850)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-626-1
External Source: BID
Name: 30266
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-36.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2125
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020516
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31270
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31132
Type: Advisory