CVE-2008-5508

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.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425046 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33231 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33523 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33204 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021426 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33547 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33189 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33421 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 Third Party Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 Broken Link
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/35080 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33415 Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47414 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11040 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2008-12-17 11:30

Updated : 2018-11-08 08:12


NVD link : CVE-2008-5508

Mitre link : CVE-2008-5508

Products Affected
No products.
CWE