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CVE-2005-0399

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in GIF2.cpp in Firefox before 1.0.2, Mozilla before to 1.7.6, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, and possibly other applications that use the same library, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a GIF image with a crafted Netscape extension 2 block and buffer size.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 0.8, 0.9, 0.9-rc, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3 (+4)
• Mozilla: 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-alpha, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5-alpha (+16)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+8)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/14654
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19823
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-160.shtml
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/557948
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-30.html
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-335.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-336.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-337.html

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