CVE-2008-5024

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.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32684 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32693 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32694 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32695 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32713 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32714 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32715 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32721 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32778 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32798 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/32853 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 Third Party Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 Broken Link
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:235 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-58.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0976.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021192 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453915 Exploit Vendor Advisory Issue Tracking
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9063 Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2008-11-13 11:30

Updated : 2023-12-10 10:51


NVD link : CVE-2008-5024

Mitre link : CVE-2008-5024

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2008-5024


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Products Affected

mozilla

  • thunderbird
  • seamonkey
  • firefox

canonical

  • ubuntu_linux

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-91

XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)