CVE-2008-5500

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-12-17

Description

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, 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) and possibly trigger memory corruption via vectors related to (1) a reachable assertion or (2) an integer overflow.

See more information about CVE-2008-5500 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-2008-1037	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nspr)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-1037	2008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2009-0002	2009-01-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-1036	2008-12-17

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