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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1696-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1697-1 New iceape packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1704-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1707-1 New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-5485 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-690-1 Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-690-2 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-701-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-701-2 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Fixes

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References
Link Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/33184 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33188 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33189 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33203 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33204 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33205 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33216 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33231 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33408 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33415 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33421 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33433 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33434 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33523 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33547 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35080 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-258748-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1704 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:244 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1037.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021426 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425046 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460803 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47414 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5508 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11040 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5508 cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:56:47.189Z

Reserved: 2008-12-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-5508

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-12-17T23:30:00.593

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

Link: CVE-2008-5508

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-12-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-5508 - Bugzilla

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