Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-5017
Integer overflow in xpcom/io/nsEscape.cpp in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.038 (89.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 7.10, 8.04
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11436 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/32713 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)