CVE-2008-5500 is a critical denial-of-service and potential memory corruption vulnerability affecting the layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 2.x and 3.x, Thunderbird 2.x, and SeaMonkey 1.x. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it is easily exploitable remotely with low attack complexity, allowing unauthenticated attackers to cause a crash and potentially execute arbitrary code. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0, < 2.0.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.0, < 3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0, < 1.1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.0, < 2.0.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.06CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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