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CVSSv2

CVE-2008-3836

Published: 24/09/2008 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

feedWriter in Mozilla Firefox prior to 2.0.0.17 allows remote malicious users to execute scripts with chrome privileges via vectors related to feed preview and the (1) elem.doCommand, (2) elem.dispatchEvent, (3) _setTitleText, (4) _setTitleImage, and (5) _initSubscriptionUI functions.

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mozilla firefox 0.9_rc

mozilla firefox 0.8

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12

mozilla firefox 1.5

mozilla firefox 1.5.2

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6

mozilla firefox 1.8

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.10

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.11

mozilla firefox

mozilla firefox 1.5.4

mozilla firefox 1.0.2

mozilla firefox 0.9.1

mozilla firefox 1.0.4

mozilla firefox 1.0.7

mozilla firefox 0.10.1

mozilla firefox 0.9

mozilla firefox 1.5.6

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15

mozilla firefox 1.0

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7

mozilla firefox 2.0

mozilla firefox 1.0.1

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5

mozilla firefox 1.5.7

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.12

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2

mozilla firefox 1.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.5.1

mozilla firefox 0.9.3

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1

mozilla firefox 1.5.5

mozilla firefox 0.9.2

mozilla firefox 1.5.8

mozilla firefox 1.5.3

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4

mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1

mozilla firefox 0.10

mozilla firefox 1.0.5

mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10

mozilla firefox 1.0.6

mozilla firefox 1.0.8

Vendor Advisories

Ubuntu Security Notice: firefox, firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities
Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered errors in the Firefox URL parsing routines If a user were tricked into opening a crafted hyperlink, an attacker could overflow a stack buffer and execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-0016) ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 regression
USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner The upstream patches introduced a regression in the saved password handling While password data was not lost, if a user had saved any passwords with non-ASCII characters, Firefox could not access the password database This update fixes the problem ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: firefox vulnerabilities
USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner for Ubuntu 704, 710 and 804 LTS This provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 606 LTS ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1649-1 iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities
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-2008-0016 Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead t ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1697-1 iceape -- several vulnerabilities
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceape an unbranded version of the Seamonkey internet suite The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-0016 Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the ex ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1669-1 xulrunner -- several vulnerabilities
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-2008-0016 Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may lead to the executio ...
Mozilla: Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-39 Privilege escalation using feed preview page and XSS flaw Announced September 23, 2008 Reporter moz_bug_r_a4 Impact Critical Products Firefox Fixed in ...

References

CWE-264https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360529https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430658http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-39.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32042http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32144http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669http://secunia.com/advisories/32845http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1http://secunia.com/advisories/31984http://secunia.com/advisories/32012http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020914http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2http://secunia.com/advisories/33433http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1http://secunia.com/advisories/34501http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661http://secunia.com/advisories/32185http://secunia.com/advisories/32196http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45350https://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/645-1/
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