CVE-2008-4062

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-09-24

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the JavaScript engine and (1) misinterpretation of the characteristics of Namespace and QName in jsxml.c, (2) misuse of signed integers in the nsEscapeCount function in nsEscape.cpp, and (3) interaction of JavaScript garbage collection with certain use of an NPObject in the nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in nsJSNPRuntime.cpp.

See more information about CVE-2008-4062 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	10	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0908	2008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24

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