CVE-2008-5052 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5052 at MITRE

Description

The AppendAttributeValue function in the JavaScript engine in Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated by e4x/extensions/regress-410192.js.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 439841 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:055, published Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:32:36 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:30 2025