CVE-2008-5016

medium

Description

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, 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 multiple vectors that trigger an assertion failure or other consequences.

References

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-52.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

http://secunia.com/advisories/32721

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/32695

http://secunia.com/advisories/32694

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021183

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146

http://secunia.com/advisories/32798

http://secunia.com/advisories/32684

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230

http://secunia.com/advisories/32713

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/32778

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11356

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=439206%2C453406%2C458637%2C444864%2C452157%2C449111%2C444260%2C457375%2C433429%2C443528%2C430394

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2008-11-13

Updated: 2023-02-13

Type: CWE-399

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: MEDIUM