Bug 476267 (CVE-2008-5501)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5501 Layout engine crash - Firefox 3 only
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5501
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-12-12 20:25:19 UTC

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the
browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of
these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain
circumstances and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these
could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

David Baron reported a crash in the layout engine which only affected
Firefox 3.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-12-16 23:24:05 UTC

This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-60.html

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:29:12 UTC

xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.fc10, firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10, epiphany-2.24.1-3.fc10, epiphany-extensions-2.24.0-3.fc10, blam-1.8.5-5.fc10, devhelp-0.22-2.fc10, evolution-rss-0.1.2-3.fc10, galeon-2.0.7-4.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-3.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-25.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-13.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.3-2.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-1.fc10.2, Miro-1.2.7-3.fc10, mozvoikko-0.9.5-5.fc10, mugshot-1.2.2-4.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-4.fc10, ruby-gnome2-0.18.1-2.fc10, yelp-2.24.0-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:35:39 UTC

xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.fc9, firefox-3.0.5-1.fc9, epiphany-2.22.2-6.fc9, epiphany-extensions-2.22.1-6.fc9, blam-1.8.5-4.fc9.1, cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-1.fc9.2, chmsee-1.0.1-7.fc9, devhelp-0.19.1-7.fc9, evolution-rss-0.1.0-5.fc9, galeon-2.0.7-4.fc9, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-22.fc9, gnome-web-photo-0.3-16.fc9, google-gadgets-0.10.3-2.fc9, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-24.fc9, kazehakase-0.5.6-1.fc9.2, Miro-1.2.7-3.fc9, mozvoikko-0.9.5-5.fc9, mugshot-1.2.2-4.fc9, ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-4.fc9, totem-2.23.2-9.fc9, yelp-2.22.1-7.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2010-12-25 16:56:18 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:1036
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:1036
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:1037
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:1037
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:1037
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:0002
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:0002
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications version 5 (thunderbird)	RHSA-2009:0002