National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4067
Original release date:09/24/2008
Last revised:04/16/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 on Linux allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) and URL-encoded / (slash) characters in a resource: URI.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8429
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8401
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8425
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394075
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380994
External Source: XF
Name: mozilla-protocol-directory-traversal(45359)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0977
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-647-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-645-2
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-645-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020921
External Source: BID
Name: 31346
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0908
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0882
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0879
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-44.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:206
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:205
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2661
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1697
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1696
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1669
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.0x000000.com/?i=422
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 256408
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2008-270-01
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2008-269-01
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2008-269-02
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33434
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33433
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32845
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32144
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32096
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32095
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32092
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32089
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32082
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32044
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32042
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32025
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32012
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32011
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32010
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32007
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31987
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31985
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31984
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:050
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~