PT-2008-6569

CVE-2008-5502

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Published

2008-12-17

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Updated

2018-11-08

Description by

CVSS 2.0
5.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.5 Thunderbird versions 2.x before 2.0.0.19 SeaMonkey versions 1.x before 1.1.14
Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger memory corruption, related to the GetXMLEntity and FastAppendChar functions.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.5, update to version 3.0.5 or later. For Thunderbird versions 2.x before 2.0.0.19, update to version 2.0.0.19 or later. For SeaMonkey versions 1.x before 1.1.14, update to version 1.1.14 or later.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1
RHSA-2008:1036
RHSA-2008_1036
RHSA-2008:1037
RHSA-2008_1037
RHSA-2009:0002
RHSA-2009_0002
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