CVE-2008-5510

The CSS parser in 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 ignores the '\0' escaped null character, which might allow remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms such as sanitization routines.

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References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-717-3
• Firefox vulnerabilities
• 11 February 2009
• USN-690-1
• Firefox and xulrunner vulnerabilities
• 17 December 2008
• USN-690-2
• Firefox vulnerabilities
• 18 December 2008
• USN-701-1
• Thunderbird vulnerabilities
• 6 January 2009

Other references

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5510