CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4062

10.0 HIGH Published 2008-09-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (< 2.0.0.17) • mozilla firefox (>= 3.0 < 3.0.2) • mozilla seamonkey (< 1.1.12) • mozilla thunderbird (< 2.0.0.17) • debian debian linux 4.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 7.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References