CVE-2008-2934

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-908

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Jul 18, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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