Buffer overflow in http-index-format parser

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.

References

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