National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5023

Overview

Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4, Firefox 2.x before 2.0.0.18, and SeaMonkey 1.x before 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to bypass the protection mechanism for codebase principals and execute arbitrary script via the -moz-binding CSS property in a signed JAR file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-319A

Name: TA08-319A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9669

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9667

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00366.html

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424733

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424733

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3146

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021189

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021189

External Source: BID

Name: 32281

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0978

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0977

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0977.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-57.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-57.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:230

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:228

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:228

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1671

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1669

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-667-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32853

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32853

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32845

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32778

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32778

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32721

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32721

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32714

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32714

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32713

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32713

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32695

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32695

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32694

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32694

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32693

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32693

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32684

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32684

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9908

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9908

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:055

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9908

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9908