CVE-2008-2934

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-908

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.

Affected products

macOS: all versions
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31132
http://secunia.com/advisories/31270
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020516
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-36.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30266
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2125
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441360
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43850

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