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Vulnerability details: VCID-9kc4-rdty-87hk
Vulnerability ID VCID-9kc4-rdty-87hk
Aliases CVE-2008-2934
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
System Score Found at
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
epss 0.05575 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2934
cvssv3.1 8.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2934
generic_textual critical https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-36
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2008-2934.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-2934
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441360
http://secunia.com/advisories/31132
http://secunia.com/advisories/31270
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020516
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43850
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-36.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30266
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2125
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
CVE-2008-2934 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2934
CVE-2008-2934 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2934
mfsa2008-36 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2008-36
USN-626-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/626-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2934
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2934
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.9025
EPSS Score 0.05575
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:18:01.731702+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2008/mfsa2008-36.md 38.0.0