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CVE-2008-5500

CVE Details

Release Date:2008-12-17
Impact:Critical What is this?

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


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


CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 10.0
Vector String: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete
Availability Impact: Complete

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-10372008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nspr)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-10372008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2009-00022009-01-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17


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