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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-0017 Detail

Description

The http-index-format MIME type parser (nsDirIndexParser) in Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 does not check for an allocation failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP index response with a crafted 200 header, which triggers memory corruption and a buffer overflow.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32694 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.iss.net/threats/311.html CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-54.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021185 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443299 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11005 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0017
NVD Published Date:
11/13/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE