National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4063

Overview

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the layout engine and (1) a zero value of the "this" variable in the nsContentList::Item function; (2) interaction of the indic IME extension, a Hindi language selection, and the "g" character; and (3) interaction of the nsFrameList::SortByContentOrder function with a certain insufficient protection of inline frames.

Description

NOTE: Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript such as large images.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-8425

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01335.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444452

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444452

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433758

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433758

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413048

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413048

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-firefox-layout-code-execution(45354)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45354

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2661

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-647-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-645-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-645-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020916

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020916

External Source: BID

Name: 31346

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0879

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-270-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-269-02

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32196

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32196

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32096

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32096

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32095

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32095

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32089

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32089

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32082

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32082

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32044

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32025

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32025

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32012

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32012

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32011

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32011

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31987

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31987

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11151

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11151

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:050

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11151

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11151