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MFSA2008-44 Thunderbird: resource: traversal vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-4068)

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MFSA2008-44 Thunderbird: resource: traversal vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-4068)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/24/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass "restrictions imposed on local HTML files," and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-2_0_0_17

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