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MFSA2008-62 Firefox: Additional XSS attack vectors in feed preview (CVE-2008-5504)

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MFSA2008-62 Firefox: Additional XSS attack vectors in feed preview (CVE-2008-5504)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/17/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/14/2012
Modified
02/14/2023

Description

Mozilla Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.19 allows remote attackers to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via vectors related to the feed preview, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-3836.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-2_0_0_19

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