medium4.3
CVE-2008-5508
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not properly parse URLs with le…
Impact
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | from 2.0 before 2.0.0.19 from 3.0 before 3.0.5 |
| Mozilla | Seamonkey | from 1.0 before 1.1.14 |
| Mozilla | Thunderbird | from 2.0 before 2.0.0.19 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | Versions 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 4.0, 5.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33184
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33189
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33204
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33205
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33231
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33408
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33415
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33421
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33523
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33547
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35080
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245