CVE-2008-5502

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger memory corruption, related to the GetXMLEntity and FastAppendChar functions.

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger memory corruption, related to the GetXMLEntity and FastAppendChar functions.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 23:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-11-08 20:11:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla SeaMonkey

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

8.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 8.10

8.10

References

33188

Third Party Advisory

33189

Third Party Advisory

33203

Third Party Advisory

33216

Third Party Advisory

33421

Third Party Advisory

34501

Third Party Advisory

256408

Broken Link

MDVSA-2008:245

Third Party Advisory

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2008:1036

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2008:1037

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2009:0002

Third Party Advisory

32882

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

1021417

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

ADV-2009-0977

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458679

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

firefox-js-deflatestring-code-execution(47408)

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10001

Third Party Advisory

USN-690-1

Third Party Advisory

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