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CVE-2008-5500 Detail

Description

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 reachable assertion or (2) an integer overflow.


Evaluator 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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33189 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33204 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33231 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33232 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33415 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33421 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33523 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/33547 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35080 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021417 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464998 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47406 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11053 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-3/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-5500
NVD Published Date:
12/17/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.