CVE-2008-5024
First published: Thu Nov 13 2008(Updated: )
Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox | >=2.0<2.0.0.18 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | >=3.0<3.0.4 | |
| Mozilla SeaMonkey | >=1.0<1.1.13 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | >=2.0<2.0.0.18 | |
| Debian Debian Linux | =4.0 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =6.06 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =7.10 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =8.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =8.10 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32684
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32693
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32694
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32695
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32713
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32714
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32715
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32721
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32778
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32798
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32853
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021192
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453915
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9063
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html
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