CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. It affects Firefox. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2008-0017
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.68%
Firefox
Original NVD Description
The http-index-format MIME type parser (nsDirIndexParser) in Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 does not check for an allocation failure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP index response with a crafted 200 header, which triggers memory corruption and a buffer overflow.