4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-0592

Published: 09/02/2008 Updated: 15/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Mozilla Firefox prior to 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey prior to 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote malicious users to cause a denial of service via a plain .txt file with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" and an invalid "Content-Type: plain/text," which prevents Firefox from rendering future plain text files within the browser.

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Vendor Advisories

Various flaws were discovered in the browser and JavaScript engine By tricking a user into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges (CVE-2008-0412, CVE-2008-0413) ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xulrunner, a runtime environment for XUL applications The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engine, which might al ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird client The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engi ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceape internet suite, an unbranded version of the Seamonkey Internet Suite The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the lay ...
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Iceweasel web browser, an unbranded version of the Firefox browser The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0412 Jesse Ruderman, Kai Engert, Martijn Wargers, Mats Palmgren and Paul Nickerson discovered crashes in the layout engin ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files Announced February 7, 2008 Reporter ooriooo Impact Low Products Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in ...

References

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