National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5052

Overview

The AppendAttributeValue function in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated by e4x/extensions/regress-410192.js.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-319A

Name: TA08-319A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454113

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454113

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3146

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021183

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021183

External Source: BID

Name: 32281

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-52.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-52.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:235

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:228

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9449

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9449

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:055

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9449

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9449