CVE-2008-5024 (GCVE-0-2008-5024)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-11-13 11:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:40
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453915 x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32694 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021192 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9063 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/32715 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32798 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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