CVE-2004-0903

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the writeGroup function in nsVCardObj.cpp for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed VCard attachments that are not properly handled when previewing a message.

Affected products

Conectiva Linux: 9.0, 10.0
Mozilla: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.7.2
Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
RedHat Fedora Core: core_1.0
RedHat Linux: 7.3, 9.0
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1
Suse Linux: 1.0, 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257314
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/414240
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11174
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17380
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10873
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257314

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