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CVE-2004-0904: Mozilla Firefox: Buffer overflow

CVE-2004-0904 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Mozilla Firefox, along with 7 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Integer overflow in the bitmap (BMP) decoder for Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via wide bitmap files that trigger heap-based buffer overflows.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Mozilla Firefox: 0.8; 0.9; 0.9 rc; 0.9.1; 0.9.2; 0.9.3
  • Mozilla: 1.7; 1.7 rc3; 1.7.1; 1.7.2
  • Mozilla Thunderbird: 0.6; 0.7; 0.7.1; 0.7.2; 0.7.3
  • Netscape Navigator: 7.0; 7.0.2; 7.1; 7.2
  • Conectiva Linux: 9.0; 10.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1; 3.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
  • Red Hat Fedora Core: core_1.0
  • Red Hat Linux: 7.3; 9.0
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1

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