Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by memory corruption errors in the JavaScript Garbage Collector when processing malformed data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.14
Mozilla SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.10
Mozilla Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.14

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.14 :
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Upgrade to Mozilla Thunderbird version 2.0.0.14 :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Upgrade to Mozilla SeaMonkey version 1.1.10 :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1251
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-20.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by the vendor.

ChangeLog

2008-04-17 : Initial release

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