CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-4069

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Sep 24, 2008 | Modified: Sep 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

The XBM decoder in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to read uninitialized memory, and possibly obtain sensitive information in opportunistic circumstances, via a crafted XBM image file.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Firefox Mozilla * 2.0.0.16 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.8 (including) 0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9 (including) 0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9-rc (including) 0.9-rc (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.1 (including) 0.9.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.2 (including) 0.9.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9.3 (including) 0.9.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.9_rc (including) 0.9_rc (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.10 (including) 0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 0.10.1 (including) 0.10.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.4 (including) 1.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.5 (including) 1.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.7 (including) 1.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.0.8 (including) 1.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5 (including) 1.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5-beta1 (including) 1.5-beta1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5-beta2 (including) 1.5-beta2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.1 (including) 1.5.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.2 (including) 1.5.0.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.3 (including) 1.5.0.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.4 (including) 1.5.0.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.5 (including) 1.5.0.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.6 (including) 1.5.0.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.7 (including) 1.5.0.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.8 (including) 1.5.0.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.9 (including) 1.5.0.9 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.10 (including) 1.5.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.11 (including) 1.5.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.0.12 (including) 1.5.0.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.1 (including) 1.5.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.2 (including) 1.5.2 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.3 (including) 1.5.3 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.4 (including) 1.5.4 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.5 (including) 1.5.5 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.6 (including) 1.5.6 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.7 (including) 1.5.7 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.5.8 (including) 1.5.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 1.8 (including) 1.8 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.1 (including) 2.0.0.1 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.10 (including) 2.0.0.10 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.11 (including) 2.0.0.11 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.12 (including) 2.0.0.12 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.13 (including) 2.0.0.13 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.14 (including) 2.0.0.14 (including)
Firefox Mozilla 2.0.0.15 (including) 2.0.0.15 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla * *
Seamonkey Mozilla * 1.1.11 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0 (including) 1.0 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0-beta (including) 1.0-beta (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.1 (including) 1.0.1 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.3 (including) 1.0.3 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.4 (including) 1.0.4 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.5 (including) 1.0.5 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.7 (including) 1.0.7 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.8 (including) 1.0.8 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.9 (including) 1.0.9 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.0.99 (including) 1.0.99 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.1 (including) 1.1 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.1.1 (including) 1.1.1 (including)
Seamonkey Mozilla 1.1.10 (including) 1.1.10 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RedHat seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.20.el2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat seamonkey-0:1.0.9-0.24.el3 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat devhelp-0:0.10-0.10.el4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat seamonkey-0:1.0.9-26.el4 *
Firefox Ubuntu dapper *
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu feisty *
Firefox Ubuntu gutsy *
Firefox Ubuntu hardy *
Firefox Ubuntu lucid *
Firefox Ubuntu maverick *
Firefox Ubuntu natty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu gutsy *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu hardy *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu intrepid *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu jaunty *
Firefox-3.0 Ubuntu upstream *
Iceape Ubuntu gutsy *
Seamonkey Ubuntu devel *
Seamonkey Ubuntu hardy *
Seamonkey Ubuntu intrepid *
Seamonkey Ubuntu jaunty *
Seamonkey Ubuntu karmic *
Seamonkey Ubuntu lucid *
Seamonkey Ubuntu maverick *
Seamonkey Ubuntu natty *
Seamonkey Ubuntu upstream *
Xulrunner Ubuntu feisty *
Xulrunner Ubuntu gutsy *
Xulrunner Ubuntu hardy *
Xulrunner Ubuntu intrepid *
Xulrunner Ubuntu jaunty *
Xulrunner Ubuntu karmic *
Xulrunner-1.9 Ubuntu gutsy *
Xulrunner-1.9 Ubuntu hardy *
Xulrunner-1.9 Ubuntu intrepid *
Xulrunner-1.9 Ubuntu jaunty *
Xulrunner-1.9 Ubuntu upstream *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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