Resource Management Errors Affecting seamonkey package, versions [1.0,1.1.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
4.7% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2380150
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Dec 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 1.1.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. 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 (crash) via vectors that trigger memory corruption, related to the GetXMLEntity and FastAppendChar functions.

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