Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 12, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-0416
CVE-2008-0416
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.
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Affected products
6cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2.0.0.11
- (no CPE)range: <2.0.0.12
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=1.1.7
- (no CPE)range: <1.1.8
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=2.0.0.11
- (no CPE)range: <2.0.0.12
Patches
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References
26- secunia.com/advisories/28839nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/28864nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/28865nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/28879nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/29541nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/30327nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/30620nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/31043nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/referencesnvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/referencesnvdVendor Advisory
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21563357/index.htmlnvd
- jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000021.htmlnvd
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvd
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.donvd
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489nvd
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xmlnvd
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29303nvd
- www.turbolinux.com/security/2008/TLSA-2008-9.txtnvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1nvd
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cginvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40488nvd
- usn.ubuntu.com/576-1/nvd
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