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CVE-2008-0592

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-02-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Seamonkey

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References