CVE-2008-5500 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5500
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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 reahable assertion or (2) an integer overflow.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47406 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-690-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-690-1 SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 ST 1021417 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA33231 Secunia Advisory: SA33433 Secunia Advisory: SA33216 Secunia Advisory: SA33232 Secunia Advisory: SA33523 Secunia Advisory: SA33189 Secunia Advisory: SA33184 Secunia Advisory: SA33188 Secunia Advisory: SA33547 Secunia Advisory: SA33203 Secunia Advisory: SA33204 Secunia Advisory: SA33205 Secunia Advisory: SA33421 Secunia Advisory: SA33434 Secunia Advisory: SA34501 Secunia Advisory: SA35080 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html MISC MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html BID 32882

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