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MFSA2008-68 Thunderbird: XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation (CVE-2008-5512)

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MFSA2008-68 Thunderbird: XSS and JavaScript privilege escalation (CVE-2008-5512)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/17/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/22/2012
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.5 and 2.x before 2.0.0.19, Thunderbird 2.x before 2.0.0.19, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.14 allow remote attackers to run arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors in which "page content can pollute XPCNativeWrappers."

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-2_0_0_19

References

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