CVE-2008-0416

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-02-12
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) zero-length non-ASCII sequences in certain Asian character sets.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0104	2008-02-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0103	2008-02-08
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0104	2008-02-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0103	2008-02-08