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MFSA2008-42 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17) (CVE-2008-4061)

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MFSA2008-42 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17) (CVE-2008-4061)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/24/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Integer overflow in the MathML component 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an mtd element with a large integer value in the rowspan attribute, related to the layout engine.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-2_0_0_17
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-3_0_2

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