Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-54
Buffer overflow in http-index-format parser
- Announced
- November 12, 2008
- Reporter
- Justin Schuh
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 2.0.0.18
- Firefox 3.0.4
- 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.