Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-2785
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.16 and 3.x before 3.0.1, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.16, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.11 use an incorrect integer data type as a CSS object reference counter in the CSSValue array (aka nsCSSValue:Array) data structure, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of references to a common CSS object, leading to a counter overflow and a free of in-use memory, aka ZDI-CAN-349.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.053 (92.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.053 · newest: 0.053 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/31154 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/support/search.do
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9900 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0597.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31403 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31270 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory)
- blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/06/18/new-security-issue-under-investigation/
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-044/