CVE-2008-0416

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-02-07
Bugzilla:
431740: CVE-2008-0416 Mozilla arbitrary code execution

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-0416 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0103 2008-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0104 2008-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0103 2008-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0104 2008-02-08
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0104 2008-02-08

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