CVE-2008-0017

Firefox <3.0.4-2.0.0.18 & SeaMonkey <1.1.13 - DoS/Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The http-index-format MIME type parser (nsDirIndexParser) in Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 does not check for an allocation failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP index response with a crafted 200 header, which triggers memory corruption and a buffer overflow.

References (33)

Core 33
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021185
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443299
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_sunalert
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32694
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_iss
http://www.iss.net/threats/311.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

Scores

EPSS 0.0768
EPSS Percentile 93.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (8)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 6.06
canonical/ubuntu_linux 7.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 8.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 8.10
debian/debian_linux 4.0
debian/debian_linux 5.0
mozilla/firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.18
mozilla/seamonkey 1.0 - 1.1.13
Published Nov 13, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026