CVE-2008-4062: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the JavaScript engine and (1) misinterpretation of the characteristics of Namespace and QName in jsxml.c, (2) misuse of signed integers in the nsEscapeCount function in nsEscape.cpp, and (3) interaction of JavaScript garbage collection with certain use of an NPObject in the nsNPObjWrapper::GetNewOrUsed function in nsJSNPRuntime.cpp.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 7.04 only; version 7.10 only; version 8.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 2.0.0.17 (fixed in 2.0.0.17); from 3.0, before 3.0.2 (fixed in 3.0.2)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 1.1.12 (fixed in 1.1.12)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 2.0.0.17 (fixed in 2.0.0.17)

Published 2008-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.