CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2934

8.8 HIGH Published 2008-07-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2008-07-18
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-908

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness
CWE-824 Access of Uninitialized Pointer weakness
CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References

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