Security Advisory

CVE-2008-5508

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-12-17 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:56:47
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 does not properly parse URLs with leading whitespace or control characters, which might allow remote attackers to misrepresent URLs and simplify phishing attacks.