CVE-2008-4068

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-09-24

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass restrictions imposed on local HTML files, and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.

See more information about CVE-2008-4068 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:	7.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0908	2008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24

This page is generated automatically and has not been checked for errors or omissions. For clarification or corrections please contact the Oracle Linux ULN team