PT-2008-2048 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Published

2008-02-08

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Updated

2023-02-13

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CVE-2008-0416

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.12 Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.12 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.8
Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings. This includes the use of a backspace character treated as whitespace, 0x80 with Shift JIS encoding, and "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.12, update to version 2.0.0.12 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 2.0.0.12, update to version 2.0.0.12 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.8, update to version 1.1.8 or later.

Fix

XSS

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0416
DSA-1484-1
DSA-1485-2
DSA-1489-1
DSA-1506-1
RHSA-2008:0103
RHSA-2008:0104
RHSA-2008_0103
RHSA-2008_0104

Affected Products

Firefox
Red Hat
Seamonkey
Thunderbird