Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-5500
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.
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: 0.032 (87.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.032 · 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, 5.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/33408 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/690-3/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33205 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33421 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33232 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)