CVE-2008-5510 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

9 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+2 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 17
Latest updateMay 14

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox2.0 — 2.0.0.19+1
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey1.0 — 1.1.14
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird2.0 — 2.0.0.19

Also affects: Debian Linux 4.0, 5.0, Ubuntu Linux 7.10, 8.04, 8.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h25j-67c9-vc8j: The CSS parser in Mozilla Firefox 3↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2008-5510: The CSS parser in Mozilla Firefox 3↗2008-12-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2009-02-11
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2009-01-06
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2008-12-18
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Ubuntu
Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities↗2008-12-17
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Red Hat
Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser↗2008-12-16
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-5510 Firefox null characters ignored by CSS parser↗2008-12-12
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CVE-2008-5510 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase