CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-0592

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2008-02-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-02-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers 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.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 2.0.0.11) • mozilla seamonkey (<= 1.1.7)

References