CVE-2008-4062

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS10.0
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedSep 24, 2008
First seenSep 24, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv < 2.0.0.17, 3.0 ≤ v < 3.0.22.0.0.17, 3.0.2
mozilla seamonkeyv < 1.1.121.1.12
mozilla thunderbirdv < 2.0.0.172.0.0.17
debian debian_linux4.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04—

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