Bug 476281 (CVE-2008-5508)

Summary: CVE-2008-5508 Firefox errors parsing URLs with control characters
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5508
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Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-12-16 23:11:27 UTC
Perl developer Chip Salzenberg reported that certain control characters, when placed at the beginning of a URL, would lead to incorrect parsing resulting in a malformed URL being output by the parser. IBM researchers Justin Schuh, Tom Cross, and Peter William also reported a related symptom as part of their research that resulted in MFSA 2008-37.

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-12-16 23:15:47 UTC
This is now public:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-66.html

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:24:55 UTC
seamonkey-1.1.14-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:29:31 UTC
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.fc10, firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10, epiphany-2.24.1-3.fc10, epiphany-extensions-2.24.0-3.fc10, blam-1.8.5-5.fc10, devhelp-0.22-2.fc10, evolution-rss-0.1.2-3.fc10, galeon-2.0.7-4.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-3.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-25.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-13.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.3-2.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-1.fc10.2, Miro-1.2.7-3.fc10, mozvoikko-0.9.5-5.fc10, mugshot-1.2.2-4.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-4.fc10, ruby-gnome2-0.18.1-2.fc10, yelp-2.24.0-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:36:06 UTC
xulrunner-1.9.0.5-1.fc9, firefox-3.0.5-1.fc9, epiphany-2.22.2-6.fc9, epiphany-extensions-2.22.1-6.fc9, blam-1.8.5-4.fc9.1, cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-1.fc9.2, chmsee-1.0.1-7.fc9, devhelp-0.19.1-7.fc9, evolution-rss-0.1.0-5.fc9, galeon-2.0.7-4.fc9, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-22.fc9, gnome-web-photo-0.3-16.fc9, google-gadgets-0.10.3-2.fc9, gtkmozembedmm-1.4.2.cvs20060817-24.fc9, kazehakase-0.5.6-1.fc9.2, Miro-1.2.7-3.fc9, mozvoikko-0.9.5-5.fc9, mugshot-1.2.2-4.fc9, ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-4.fc9, totem-2.23.2-9.fc9, yelp-2.22.1-7.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:40:14 UTC
seamonkey-1.1.14-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:42:15 UTC
firefox-2.0.0.19-1.fc8, epiphany-2.20.3-9.fc8, epiphany-extensions-2.20.1-12.fc8, blam-1.8.3-20.fc8, cairo-dock-1.6.3.1-1.fc8.2, chmsee-1.0.0-6.31.fc8, devhelp-0.16.1-12.fc8, evolution-rss-0.0.8-14.fc8, galeon-2.0.4-7.fc8.3, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-20.fc8, gnome-web-photo-0.3-15.fc8, kazehakase-0.5.6-1.fc8.2, liferea-1.4.15-6.fc8, Miro-1.2.7-3.fc8, openvrml-0.17.10-3.0.fc8, ruby-gnome2-0.17.0-4.fc8, yelp-2.20.0-15.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:44:01 UTC
seamonkey-1.1.14-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.