CVE-2008-2934

HIGH

Apple Mac OS X - Use of Uninitialized Resource

Title source: rule

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.

References (12)

[Broken Link, Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/31132

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/31270

[Broken Link] http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://securitytracker.com/id?1020516

[Broken Link] http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-36.html

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30266

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1

[Broken Link] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2125

[Broken Link] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

[Exploit, Issue Tracking] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441360

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43850

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0558

EPSS Percentile 90.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-908

Status draft

Affected Products (2)

apple/mac_os_x

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Jul 18, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026