CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0902

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via the 'Send page' functionality, certain responses from a malicious POP3 server, or a link containing a non-ASCII hostname.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization includes potential remote code execution, leading to data theft, malware installation, or application disruption.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update Mozilla Firefox to the Preview Release or later, Mozilla to version 1.7.3 or later, and Thunderbird to version 0.8 or later to mitigate the vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Mozilla Firefox before the Preview Release, Mozilla before 1.7.3, and Thunderbird before 0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) the "Send page" functionality, (2) certain responses from a malicious POP3 server, or (3) a link containing a non-ASCII hostname.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS