Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-58
Parsing error in E4X default namespace
- Announced
- November 12, 2008
- Reporter
- Chris Evans
- Impact
- Low
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 2.0.0.18
- Firefox 3.0.4
- SeaMonkey 1.1.13
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.18
Description
Security researcher Chris Evans reported an error in the method used to parse the default namespace in an E4X document. The error was caused by quote characters in the namespace not being properly escaped. The severity of this issue was determined to be low.