CVE-2008-5501 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5501?

CVE-2008-5501 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 17 Dec 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 3.0.5, 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5501?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5501?

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-2008-5501 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5501 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4vx3-3xr8-7q3x.