Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2008-5501
The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, 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 via vectors that trigger an assertion failure.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 8.04, 8.10
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/33421 (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)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/33203 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10257 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/33216 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)