Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12, allow user-assisted remote attackers to move a window during a mouse click, and possibly force a file download or unspecified other drag-and-drop action, via a crafted onmousedown action that calls window.moveBy, a variant of CVE-2003-0823.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1649-1 New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1669-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1697-1 New iceape packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-3823 Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12, allow user-assisted remote attackers to move a window during a mouse click, and possibly force a file download or unspecified other drag-and-drop action, via a crafted onmousedown action that calls window.moveBy, a variant of CVE-2003-0823.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-645-1 Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-645-2 Firefox vulnerabilities
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References
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http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~ cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31987 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32011 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32089 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32095 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32096 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32185 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-40.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020922 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329385 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45348 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3837 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9950 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3837 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01335.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:53:00.308Z

Reserved: 2008-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-3837

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-09-24T20:37:04.517

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-3837

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-09-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3837 - Bugzilla

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