| Name | CVE-2008-5501 |
| Description | The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5, 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 via vectors that trigger an assertion failure. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| icedove (PTS) | jessie | 1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| icedove | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| iceweasel | source | etch | (not affected) | | | |
| iceweasel | source | (unstable) | 3.0.5-1 | | | |
| xulrunner | source | etch | (not affected) | | | |
| xulrunner | source | (unstable) | 1.9.0.5-1 | | | |
Notes
[etch] - iceweasel <not-affected> (Firefox 2.x not affected)
[etch] - xulrunner <not-affected> (Xulrunner 1.8 not affected)
- icedove <not-affected> (This issue was FF3 only, CVE-2008-5500 affects icedove)