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CVE-2008-5021

Date: November 13, 2008

nsFrameManager in Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, 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) and possibly execute arbitrary code by modifying properties of a file input element while it is still being initialized, then using the blur method to access uninitialized memory.

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (42)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32695

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32694

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32693

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5021

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-5021

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32714

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32713

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-55.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32778

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32853

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32798

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5021

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460002

Url: http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32715

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32684

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021186

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32721

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9642

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5021

Severity Score

8.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-5021

Date: November 13, 2008

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