CVE-2005-0399 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2005-0399?

CVE-2005-0399 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 24 Mar 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in GIF2.cpp in Firefox before 1.0.2, Mozilla before to 1.7.6, and Thunderbird before 1.0.2, and possibly other applications that use the same library, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a GIF image with a crafted Netscape extension 2 block and buffer size.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-0399?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Mozilla, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2005-0399?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2005-0399 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-0399 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x75c-2774-mpv3.