CVE-2008-5508

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33408
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47414
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11040
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021426
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33205
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33421
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33231
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425046
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33204
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33184
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33415
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33523
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35080
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33547
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33189
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33408
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47414
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11040
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021426
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33205
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33421
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33231
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425046
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33204
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33184
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33415
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33523
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35080
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33547
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33434
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33189
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

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