National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5502
Original release date:12/17/2008
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458679
External Source: XF
Name: firefox-js-deflatestring-code-execution(47408)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-690-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021417
External Source: BID
Name: 32882
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0002
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:1037
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:1036
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:245
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33421
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33216
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33203
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33189
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33188
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10001
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10001
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)