CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2807

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-07-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-07-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly handle an invalid .properties file for an add-on, which allows remote attackers to read uninitialized memory, as demonstrated by use of ISO 8859 encoding instead of UTF-8 encoding in a French .properties file.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 2.0.0.14) • mozilla firefox 2.0 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.2 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.3 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.4 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.5 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.6 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.7 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.8 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.9 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13 • mozilla seamonkey (<= 1.1.9) • mozilla seamonkey 1.1 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.2 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.3 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.4 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.5 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.6 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.7 • mozilla seamonkey 1.1.8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References