National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5018
Original release date:11/13/2008
Last revised:08/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The JavaScript 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 vectors related to "insufficient class checking" in the Date class.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-319A
Name: TA08-319A
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-9669
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452786
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021183
External Source: BID
Name: 32281
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0978
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0977
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-52.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:235
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:228
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-3146
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1696
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1671
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1669
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33434
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32845
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32721
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32715
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32714
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32695
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32694
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32693
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:055