CVE-2008-5016 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5016?

CVE-2008-5016 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 13 Nov 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via multiple vectors that trigger an assertion failure or other consequences.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5016?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5016?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-5016 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5016 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9gm5-4h53-36xh.