fkie_cve-2008-5508
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-12-17 23:30
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| mozilla | firefox | * | |
| mozilla | firefox | * | |
| mozilla | seamonkey | * | |
| mozilla | thunderbird | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 7.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.10 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 5.0 |
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