CVE-2008-5510

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-12-16
Bugzilla:
476283: CVE-2008-5510 Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The CSS parser in 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 ignores the '\0' escaped null character, which might allow remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms such as sanitization routines.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5510 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:1036 2008-12-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2008:1036 2008-12-17

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