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CVE-2008-5510

This CVE name corresponds to:

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

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CVE-2008-5510 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2008-5510
Phase	Assigned(20081212)

Description

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.

References

Source	Reference
MISC	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228856
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-67.html
DEBIAN	DSA-1707
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2008:245
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2009:012
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2008:244
REDHAT	RHSA-2008:1036
SUNALERT	256408
SUNALERT	258748
UBUNTU	USN-690-1
UBUNTU	USN-690-2
UBUNTU	USN-701-1
BID	32882
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9662
SECTRACK	1021425
SECUNIA	33231
SECUNIA	33216
SECUNIA	33523
SECUNIA	33184
SECUNIA	33188
SECUNIA	33203
SECUNIA	33204
SECUNIA	33205
SECUNIA	34501
SECUNIA	35080
SECUNIA	33408
VUPEN	ADV-2009-0977
XF	mozilla-cssparser-security-bypass(47415)