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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-36

Crash with malformed GIF file on Mac OS X

Announced
July 16, 2008
Reporter
Drew Yao
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 3.0.1

Description

Drew Yao of Apple Product Security reported a vulnerability in Mozilla graphics code which handles GIF rendering in Mac OS X. He demonstrated that a GIF file could be specially crafted to cause the browser to free an uninitialized pointer. An attacker could use this vulnerability to crash the browser and potentially execute arbitrary code on the victim's computer.

Firefox 2 is not affected by this issue.

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