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MFSA2008-58 Thunderbird: Parsing error in E4X default namespace (CVE-2008-5024)

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MFSA2008-58 Thunderbird: Parsing error in E4X default namespace (CVE-2008-5024)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/13/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

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.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-2_0_0_18

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