CVE-2008-5013 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5013 at MITRE

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18 and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly check when the Flash module has been dynamically unloaded properly, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file that "dynamically unloads itself from an outside JavaScript function," which triggers an access of an expired memory address.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 439841 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:055, published Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:32:26 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Sep 14 11:12:30 2024