CVE-2008-5024 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-5024 at MITRE

Description

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 do not properly escape quote characters used for XML processing, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML injection attacks via the default namespace in an E4X document.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 439841 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:055, published Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:00:00 +0000
openSUSE-SU-2014:1100-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:33 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`MozillaThunderbird >= 91.1.1-1.1` `MozillaThunderbird-translations-common >= 91.1.1-1.1` `MozillaThunderbird-translations-other >= 91.1.1-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10601

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP1	MozillaThunderbird	Already fixed

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:32:29 2013
CVE page last modified: Sat Jun 15 20:53:58 2024