National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5500

Overview

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 reahable assertion or (2) an integer overflow.

Description

Per http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript such as large images.

Impact

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464998

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464998

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803

External Source: XF

Name: mozilla-layout-code-execution-var3(47406)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47406

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-690-3

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-690-3

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-690-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-690-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-690-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021417

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021417

External Source: BID

Name: 32882

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0002

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:1037

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:1036

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:012

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:245

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:244

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1707

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1704

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1697

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1696

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 258748

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35080

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35080

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33547

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33547

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33523

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33523

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33434

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33433

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33421

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33421

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33232

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33232

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33231

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33231

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33216

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33216

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33205

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33205

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33204

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33204

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33203

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33203

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33189

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33189

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33188

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33188

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33184

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33184