Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly handle an invalid .properties file for an add-on, which allows remote attackers to read uninitialized memory, as demonstrated by use of ISO 8859 encoding instead of UTF-8 encoding in a French .properties file.
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http://secunia.com/advisories/31220 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2807 cve-icon
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-07-07T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:14:14.921Z

Reserved: 2008-06-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-2807

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-07T23:41:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:47:45.107

Link: CVE-2008-2807

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2807 - Bugzilla