National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0904

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA04-261A

Name: TA04-261A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-261A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#847200

Name: VU#847200

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847200

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-netscape-bmp-bo(17381)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17381

External Source: BID

Name: 11171

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11171

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2004:036

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7.3

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200409-26

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-26.xml

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10952

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10952

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FLSA:2089

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2

External Source: HP

Name: SSRT4826

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=109698896104418&w=2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255067

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255067

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10952

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10952