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CVE-2008-4059

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2008-09-24 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2008-4059
Phase Assigned(20080912)

Description

The XPConnect component in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 allows remote attackers to "pollute XPCNativeWrappers" and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors related to a SCRIPT element.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-41.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419848
CONFIRM http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~
DEBIAN DSA-1669
DEBIAN DSA-1697
DEBIAN DSA-1696
DEBIAN DSA-1649
FEDORA FEDORA-2008-8401
FEDORA FEDORA-2008-8429
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2008:205
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2008:206
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0908
REDHAT RHSA-2008:0882
SLACKWARE SSA:2008-269-01
SLACKWARE SSA:2008-269-02
SLACKWARE SSA:2008-270-01
SUNALERT 256408
SUSE SUSE-SA:2008:050
UBUNTU USN-647-1
UBUNTU USN-645-1
UBUNTU USN-645-2
BID 31346
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9529
SECUNIA 34501
SECUNIA 32185
SECUNIA 32196
VUPEN ADV-2008-2661
SECTRACK 1020915
SECUNIA 32042
SECUNIA 32025
SECUNIA 32092
SECUNIA 32144
SECUNIA 32044
SECUNIA 32082
SECUNIA 32845
SECUNIA 31984
SECUNIA 31985
SECUNIA 32007
SECUNIA 32010
SECUNIA 32012
SECUNIA 33433
SECUNIA 33434
VUPEN ADV-2009-0977
XF firefox2-xpcnativewrappers-code-execution(45352)