CVE-2008-0592

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-02-09
Impact:	Low	What is this?

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

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:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
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