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CVE-2008-5508

CVE Details

Release Date:2008-12-17
Impact:Low What is this?

Description


Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.

See more information about CVE-2008-5508 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: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


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-10372008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nspr)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-10372008-12-17
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2009-00022009-01-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2008-10362008-12-17


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