CVE-2008-0592 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0592
NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2008-0592

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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 ST 1019340 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28879 Secunia Advisory: SA28877 Secunia Advisory: SA28865 Secunia Advisory: SA28864 Secunia Advisory: SA28754 Secunia Advisory: SA28818 Secunia Advisory: SA28924 Secunia Advisory: SA28939 Secunia Advisory: SA28958 Secunia Advisory: SA29086 Secunia Advisory: SA29167 Secunia Advisory: SA29567 Secunia Advisory: SA30327 Secunia Advisory: SA30620 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051 http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/ http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded BID 27683

Return to the previous page.