Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-54

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-54

Title: Buffer overflow in http-index-format parser
Impact: Critical
Announced: November 12, 2008
Reporter: Justin Schuh
Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey

Fixed in: Firefox 3.0.4
Firefox 2.0.0.18
SeaMonkey 1.1.13
Description

Justin Schuh of the IBM X-Force reported a flaw in the way Mozilla parses the http-index-format MIME type. By sending a specially crafted 200 header line in the HTTP index response, an attacker can cause the browser to crash and run arbitrary code on the victim's computer.
References

* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443299
* CVE-2008-0017