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CVE-2004-0904

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the bitmap (BMP) decoder for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via wide bitmap files that trigger heap-based buffer overflows.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3
• Mozilla: 1.7, 1.7-rc3, 1.7.1, 1.7.2
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.6, 0.7, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.3
• Netscape Navigator: 7.0, 7.0.2, 7.1, 7.2
• 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

References

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255067
• 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/847200
• 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/11171
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17381
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10952
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255067

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