Upstream information

CVE-2008-4062 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  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: 429179 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP1 MozillaThunderbird Already fixed


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:33:34 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Feb 1 00:13:28 2024