CVE-2008-5505 (GCVE-0-2008-5505)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-12-17 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:56
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
secalert@redhat.com http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
secalert@redhat.com http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
secalert@redhat.com http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
secalert@redhat.com http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
secalert@redhat.com http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
secalert@redhat.com https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
secalert@redhat.com https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
secalert@redhat.com https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/33188
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-63.html Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021428
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295994
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47411
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10443
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
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