Fluid Attacks Database

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
rpm rhel5	xulrunner	<0:1.9.0.4-1.el5	0:1.9.0.4-1.el5
rpm rhel5	devhelp	<0:0.12-20.el5	0:0.12-20.el5
rpm rhel5	firefox	<0:3.0.4-1.el5	0:3.0.4-1.el5
rpm rhel5	nss	<0:3.12.1.1-3.el5	0:3.12.1.1-3.el5
rpm rhel5	yelp	<0:2.16.0-22.el5	0:2.16.0-22.el5

Aliases

1. CVE-2008-00172. NVD-2008-00173. OSV-2008-0017

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