MFSA2008-60 Firefox: Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.5/1.8.1.19) (CVE-2008-5502)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
12/17/2008
07/25/2018
06/14/2012
02/13/2015
Description
The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, 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) via vectors that trigger memory corruption, related to the GetXMLEntity and FastAppendChar functions.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-2_0_0_19
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-3_0_5
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