CVE-2008-5021 — Race Condition in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-362 — Race Condition7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
23.8%
top 3.99%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
12
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+9 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 13
Latest updateMay 14

Description

nsFrameManager in Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, 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) and possibly execute arbitrary code by modifying properties of a file input element while it is still being initialized, then using the blur method to access uninitialized memory.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages9 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox2.0 — 2.0.0.18+1
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey1.0 — 1.1.13
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird2.0 — 2.0.0.18
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse10.2, 10.3, 11.0+2

Also affects: Debian Linux 4.0, Fedora 8, 9, Ubuntu Linux 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7qf3-8pfp-6qg9: nsFrameManager in Firefox 3↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2008-5021: nsFrameManager in Firefox 3↗2008-11-13
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2008-11-26
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Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2008-11-17
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Red Hat
Mozilla crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager↗2008-11-12
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-5021 Mozilla crash and remote code execution in nsFrameManager↗2008-11-10
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