CVE-2008-5508 (GCVE-0-2008-5508)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-17 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:56
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47414 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11040 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021426 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33421 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/33231 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425046 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/33204 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUNALERT
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803 x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/33415 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33523 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35080 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33547 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33189 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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