CVE-2008-5508

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-12-16
Bugzilla:
476281: CVE-2008-5508 Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5508 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:0002 2009-01-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:0002 2009-01-07
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:1036 2008-12-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:1037 2008-12-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2008:1036 2008-12-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:1037 2008-12-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:1037 2008-12-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2009:0002 2009-01-07

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