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Mozilla Firefox UTF-8 String Conversion Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Mozilla Firefox UTF-8 String Conversion Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/25/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2005
Modified
05/23/2019

Description

Certain versions of Mozilla Firefox contain a flawed implementation of the UTF-8 string conversion logic. As a result, a carefully crafted string can cause a heap-based buffer overflow that can lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Note that it is not currently known if exploitation is possible due to the browser's automatic pre-processing of strings.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-1_0_1
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest

References

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