cve-2008-0416
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-02-12 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 07:46
Severity ?
Summary
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28839Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28864Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28865Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28879Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29541Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30327Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30620Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31043Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txt
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.htmlUS Government Resource
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/referencesVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/referencesVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=404252%2C381412%2C407161
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/
Impacted products
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