CVE-2008-5510 (GCVE-0-2008-5510)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-17 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:56
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The CSS parser in 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 ignores the '\0' escaped null character, which might allow remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms such as sanitization routines.
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021425 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9662 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228856 x_refsource_MISC
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/mfsa2008-67.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://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
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://secunia.com/advisories/33204 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
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
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
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47415 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
Impacted products
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