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CVE-2008-5507 Detail

Description

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 allow remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy and access portions of data from another domain via a JavaScript URL that redirects to the target resource, which generates an error if the target data does not have JavaScript syntax, which can be accessed using the window.onerror DOM API.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-011.html Third Party Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-65.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499353/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021423 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461735 Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47413 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9376 Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-3/ Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-5507
NVD Published Date:
12/17/2008
NVD Last Modified:
11/08/2018
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.