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MFSA2008-42 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17) (CVE-2008-4064)

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MFSA2008-42 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17) (CVE-2008-4064)

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

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to graphics rendering and (1) handling of a long alert messagebox in the cairo_surface_set_device_offset function, (2) integer overflows when handling animated PNG data in the info_callback function in nsPNGDecoder.cpp, and (3) an integer overflow when handling SVG data in the nsSVGFEGaussianBlurElement::SetupPredivide function in nsSVGFilters.cpp.

Solution(s)

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

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