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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2008-12-17
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Affected products
- Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Firefox (Mozilla)
- Seamonkey (Mozilla)
- Thunderbird (Mozilla)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33184
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33189
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33204
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33205
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33231
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33408
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33415
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33421
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33523
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33547
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35080
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html
