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CVE-2008-0017 (firefox, seamonkey)

November 13th, 2008 by News

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.

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Source: National Vulnerability Database

The Hackers’ Nightmare is here!

Posted in Latest News, National Vulnerability Db |November 13th, 2008 by News|

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