CVE-2008-2807
N/A
Published: July 7, 2008 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorFirefoxSeamonkey
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly handle an invalid .properties file for an add-on, which allows remote attackers to read uninitialized memory, as demonstrated by use of ISO 8859 encoding instead of UTF-8 encoding in a French .properties file.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30911
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.383152
References (55)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/30911Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200
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