Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-66

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-66 Title: Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters Impact: Low Announced: December 16, 2008 Reporter: Chip Salzenberg Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.0.5 Firefox 2.0.0.19 Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 SeaMonk...

Design/Logic Flaw

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...

CVE-2008-5508

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...

CVE-2008-5508

CVE-2008-5508 affects Mozilla Firefox (3.x prior to 3.0.5 and 2.x prior to 2.0.0.19), Mozilla Thunderbird (2.x prior to 2.0.0.19), and SeaMonkey (1.x prior to 1.1.14). The issue stems from improper parsing of URLs that start with leading whitespace or control characters, which can allow a remote ...

CVE-2008-5508

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...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An updated firefox package that fixes various security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla Firefox is an open source Web browser. Several flaws were found in the...

Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters

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...

Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters

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...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: seamonkey security update

Updated seamonkey packages that fix security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. SeaMonkey is an open source Web...

CVE-2008-5508: Improper Input Validation

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...

CVE-2008-5508

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...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2008-69 XSS vulnerabilities in SessionStore MFSA 2008-68 XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation MFSA 2008-67 Escaped null characters ignored by CSS parser MFSA 2008-66 Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters MFSA 2008-65 Cross-domai...

Errors parsing URLs with leading whitespace and control characters — Mozilla

Perl developer Chip Salzenberg reported that certain control characters, when placed at the beginning of a URL, would lead to incorrect parsing resulting in a malformed URL being output by the parser. IBM researchers Justin Schuh, Tom Cross, and Peter William also reported a related symptom as pa...

SuSE 10 Security Update : clamav (ZYPP Patch Number 5768)

Various bugs such as a getunicodename off-by-one buffer overflow, a bug in URL parsing of phishing checks as well as minor other issues have been fixed in clamav. CVE-2008-5050 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : clamav (clamav-5773)

Various bugs such as a getunicodename off-by-one buffer overflow, a bug in URL parsing of phishing checks as well as minor other issues have been fixed in clamav. CVE-2008-5050 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extract...

USN-645-3: Firefox and xulrunner regression

USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner. The upstream patches introduced a regression in the saved password handling. While password data was not lost, if a user had saved any passwords with non-ASCII characters, Firefox could not access the password database. This update fixes t...

CVE-2008-0016

Stack-based buffer overflow in the URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted UTF-8 URL in a link...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in the URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted UTF-8 URL in a link...

CVE-2008-0016

Stack-based buffer overflow in the URL parsing implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted UTF-8 URL in a link...

USN-645-2: Firefox vulnerabilities

USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner for Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. This provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Original advisory details: Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered errors in the Firefox URL parsing routines. If a user were...