Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-45
XBM image uninitialized memory reading
- Announced
- September 23, 2008
- Reporter
- Billy Hoffman
- Impact
- Low
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 2.0.0.17
- SeaMonkey 1.1.12
Description
Security researcher Billy Hoffman discovered a bug in the XBM decoder that allowed random small chunks of uninitialized memory to be read. The severity of this bug was low and did not appear to cause any memory corruption.
Firefox 3 is not affected by this issue