# CVE-2008-5507: 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 allow remote atta

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2008-12-17 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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 allow remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy and access portions of data from another domain via a JavaScript URL that redirects to the target resource, which generates an error if the target data does not have JavaScript syntax, which can be accessed using the window.onerror DOM API.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32882
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33408
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-3/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33205
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33421
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33232
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1036.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9376
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-690-2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499353/100/0/threaded
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-701-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33231
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:245
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/690-1/
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33203
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33433
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-011.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1707
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33216
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021423
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-65.html

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