CVE-2008-4062

high

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the JavaScript engine and (1) misinterpretation of the characteristics of Namespace and QName in jsxml.c, (2) misuse of signed integers in the nsEscapeCount function in nsEscape.cpp, and (3) interaction of JavaScript garbage collection with certain use of an NPObject in the nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in nsJSNPRuntime.cpp.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01335.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10206

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45355

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445229

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444608

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367736

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

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020916

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-42.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205

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

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

http://secunia.com/advisories/32196

http://secunia.com/advisories/32185

http://secunia.com/advisories/32144

http://secunia.com/advisories/32096

http://secunia.com/advisories/32095

http://secunia.com/advisories/32092

http://secunia.com/advisories/32089

http://secunia.com/advisories/32082

http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

http://secunia.com/advisories/32042

http://secunia.com/advisories/32025

http://secunia.com/advisories/32012

http://secunia.com/advisories/32011

http://secunia.com/advisories/32010

http://secunia.com/advisories/32007

http://secunia.com/advisories/31987

http://secunia.com/advisories/31985

http://secunia.com/advisories/31984

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High