Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-2786 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 2.0/3.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Buffer overflow in Firefox 3.0 and 2.0.x has unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: due to lack of details as of 20080619, it is not clear whether this is the same issue as CVE-2008-2785. A CVE identifier has been assigned for tracking purposes.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | BUGTRAQ ID: 29794 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2008-2786 Firefox是一款流行的开放源码WEB浏览器。 远程攻击者可以利用最新版的Firefox 3处理恶意网页内容时的缓冲区溢出漏洞导致在浏览器会话中执行任意代码。 Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Mozilla ------- 目前厂商还没有提供补丁或者升级程序，我们建议使用此软件的用户随时关注厂商的主页以获取最新版本： <a href=http://www.mozilla.org/ target=_blank>http://www.mozilla.org/</a> |
| id | SSV:3505 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2008-07-01 |
| published | 2008-07-01 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | Mozilla Firefox 3远程命令执行漏洞 |