CVE-2008-0592

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-02-09

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plain .txt file with a Content-Disposition: attachment and an invalid Content-Type: plain/text, which prevents Firefox from rendering future plain text files within the browser.

See more information about CVE-2008-0592 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

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

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 Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0105	2008-02-08
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0103	2008-02-08

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