CVE-2008-2807

Published: Jul 7, 2008Modified: Apr 23, 2026

5.0

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

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 (24)

Products: Mozilla: Firefox, Seamonkey

Mozilla

2 products

Firefox

Seamonkey

Configuration A

24 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Mozilla Firefox	version ≤ 2.0.0.14
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.10
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.11
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.12
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.13
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.1
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.2
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.3
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.4
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.5
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.6
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.7
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.8
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0.0.9
Mozilla Firefox	Version 2.0
Mozilla Seamonkey	version ≤ 1.1.9
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.2
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.3
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.4
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.5
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.6
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.7
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1.8
Mozilla Seamonkey	Version 1.1

Related CWEs

CWE-200

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

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