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Mozilla Firefox International XBM Image Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox International XBM Image Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/23/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/27/2005
Modified
05/27/2016

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox before 1.0.7 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XBM image file that ends in a large number of spaces instead of the expected end tag.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_7
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

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