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


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-08822008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)ELSA-2008-08822008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-08822008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2008-09082008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24



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