Mozilla Firefox XUL Iframe Denial Of Service
Publish date: July 21, 2015
Severity: CRITICAL
CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-5500
Advisory Date: JUL 21, 2015
DESCRIPTION
The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, 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) and possibly trigger memory corruption via vectors related to (1) a reachable assertion or (2) an integer overflow.
nvd: Per http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.
Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail. Without further investigation we cannot rule out the possibility that for some of these an attacker might be able to prepare memory for exploitation through some means other than JavaScript such as large images.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1003153
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1003153 - Mozilla Firefox XUL Iframe Denial Of Service
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- mozilla firefox 2.0
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.16
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.17
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.18
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.2
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.3
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.4
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.5
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.6
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.7
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.8
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.9
- mozilla firefox 3.0
- mozilla firefox 3.0.1
- mozilla firefox 3.0.2
- mozilla firefox 3.0.3
- mozilla firefox 3.0.4
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.2
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.3
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.4
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.5
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.6
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.7
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.8
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.9
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.10
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.11
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.12
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.13
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.2
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.3
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.4
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.5
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.6
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.7
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.8
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.9
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.0
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.12
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.14
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.16
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.17
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.18
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.4
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.5
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.6
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.9
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