CVE-2008-2807

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.15 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.10 do not properly handle an invalid .properties file for an add-on, which allows remote attackers to read uninitialized memory, as demonstrated by use of ISO 8859 encoding instead of UTF-8 encoding in a French .properties file.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 2.0.0.14; 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5 (+8)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 1.1.9; 1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6 (+2)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00004.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30878
http://secunia.com/advisories/30898
http://secunia.com/advisories/30903
http://secunia.com/advisories/30911
http://secunia.com/advisories/30949
http://secunia.com/advisories/31005
http://secunia.com/advisories/31008
http://secunia.com/advisories/31021
http://secunia.com/advisories/31023
http://secunia.com/advisories/31069

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