CVE-2008-4066
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav�ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2008-09-24
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Affected products
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx
- http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000058.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31984
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31985
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32007
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32010
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32012
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32025
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32042
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32044
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32082
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32092
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32144
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32185
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32196
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32845
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34501
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html
