CVE-2008-5024

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-11-13

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.

See more information about CVE-2008-5024 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:	7.5	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0977	2008-11-13
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0977	2008-11-13
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0976	2008-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0978	2008-11-13

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