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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1238

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1238

Description:
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9, when generating the HTTP Referer header, does not list the entire URL when it contains Basic Authentication credentials without a username, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass application protection mechanisms that rely on Referer headers, such as with some Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) mechanisms.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41449

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00002.html

ST
  1019703

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA29391
  Secunia Advisory: SA29560
  Secunia Advisory: SA29550
  Secunia Advisory: SA29539
  Secunia Advisory: SA29558
  Secunia Advisory: SA29616
  Secunia Advisory: SA29526
  Secunia Advisory: SA29541
  Secunia Advisory: SA29547
  Secunia Advisory: SA29645
  Secunia Advisory: SA29607

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0209.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0207.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0208.html

MISC
  http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?10,20033

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:080

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1535
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1534
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1532

CONFIRM
  http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0128
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-16.html

CERT
  http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490196/100/0/threaded

BID
  28448


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