CVE-2008-0592 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plain .txt file with a \Content-Disposition: attachment\ and an invalid \Content-Type: plain/text\ which prevents Firefox from rendering future plain text files within the browser.

Reference

http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28754 http://secunia.com/advisories/28818 http://secunia.com/advisories/28864 http://secunia.com/advisories/28865 http://secunia.com/advisories/28877 http://secunia.com/advisories/28879 http://secunia.com/advisories/28924 http://secunia.com/advisories/28939 http://secunia.com/advisories/28958 http://secunia.com/advisories/29086 http://secunia.com/advisories/29167 http://secunia.com/advisories/29567 http://secunia.com/advisories/30327 http://secunia.com/advisories/30620 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27683 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019340 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0453/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0627/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387258 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9972 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00274.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00309.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00381.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00905.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00946.html