(Sun Issues Fix for Thunderbird) Mozilla Firefox Does Not Properly Parse URLs Containing Control Characters
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1022228 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1022228
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2008-5508
(Links to External Site)
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Date: May 15 2009
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Impact:
Not specified
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. The impact was not specified. Mozilla Thunderbird is affected.
The parser does not properly parse certain control characters at the beginning of a URL.
The vendor reports that there is no direct security impact.
Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are affected.
Justin Schuh, Tom Cross, and Peter William from IBM and Chip Salzenberg reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
The impact was not specified.
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Solution:
Sun has issued a fix for Thunderbird, which is affected by this vulnerability.
SPARC Platform
* Thunderbird 2.0 (for Solaris 10) with patch 125541-04 or later
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_105 or later
x86 Platform
* Thunderbird 2.0 (for Solaris 10) with patch 125542-04 or later
* OpenSolaris based upon builds snv_105 or later
The Sun advisory is available at:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-258748-1
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Input validation error
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Underlying OS:
UNIX (Solaris - SunOS)
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Message History:
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