PT-2004-1936 · Mozilla · Firefox+2

Published 2004-09-24 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2004-0904

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mozilla Firefox versions prior to the Preview Release Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.3 Thunderbird versions prior to 0.8

Description: The issue is related to an integer overflow in the bitmap (BMP) decoder, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through the use of wide bitmap files that trigger heap-based buffer overflows.

Recommendations: For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to the Preview Release, update to the Preview Release or later. For Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.3, update to version 1.7.3 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 0.8, update to version 0.8 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0904

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox

Thunderbird

References · 12

• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0904 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/11171 · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255067 · Vendor Advisory
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847200 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17381 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10952 · Note
• http://mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3 · Note