CVE-2008-2807

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-07-02
CWE:
CWE-401
Bugzilla:
452709: CVE-2008-2807 Firefox .properties memory leak

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly handle an invalid .properties file for an add-on, which allows remote attackers to read uninitialized memory, as demonstrated by use of ISO 8859 encoding instead of UTF-8 encoding in a French .properties file.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2807 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0549 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616 2008-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:0569 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547 2008-07-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616 2008-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0616 2008-07-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0547 2008-07-02

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