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CVE-2008-0017

CVE information

Published

15 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
9.3/10
Exploit Score
8.6/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
2.0 2.0.0.18
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
3.0 3.0.4
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
1.0 1.1.13
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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