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CVE-2008-5505

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2008-12-19	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2008-5505 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2008-5505
Phase	Assigned(20081212)

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass intended privacy restrictions by using the persist attribute in an XUL element to create and access data entities that are similar to cookies.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2008:245
REDHAT	RHSA-2008:1036
SUNALERT	256408
UBUNTU	USN-690-1
BID	32882
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10443
SECTRACK	1021428
SECUNIA	33216
SECUNIA	33188
SECUNIA	33203
SECUNIA	34501
VUPEN	ADV-2009-0977
XF	firefox-xul-weak-security(47411)