CVE-2008-4062

NameCVE-2008-4062
DescriptionMultiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the JavaScript engine and (1) misinterpretation of the characteristics of Namespace and QName in jsxml.c, (2) misuse of signed integers in the nsEscapeCount function in nsEscape.cpp, and (3) interaction of JavaScript garbage collection with certain use of an NPObject in the nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in nsJSNPRuntime.cpp.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1649-1, DSA-1669-1, DSA-1696-1, DSA-1697-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
icedove (PTS)jessie1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
iceapesourceetch1.0.13~pre080614i-0etch1DSA-1697-1
iceapesource(unstable)1.1.12-1
icedovesourceetch1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1DSA-1696-1
icedovesource(unstable)2.0.0.17-1
iceweaselsourceetch2.0.0.17-0etch1DSA-1649-1
iceweaselsource(unstable)3.0.3-1
xulrunnersourceetch1.8.0.15~pre080614h-0etch1DSA-1669-1
xulrunnersource(unstable)1.9.0.3-1

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