CVE-2008-4066 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4066
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Description: 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&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45358 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html SUNALERT http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 ST 1020920 SLACKWARE http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123 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 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA34501 Secunia Advisory: SA32042 Secunia Advisory: SA32025 Secunia Advisory: SA32092 Secunia Advisory: SA32144 Secunia Advisory: SA32044 Secunia Advisory: SA32082 Secunia Advisory: SA32845 Secunia Advisory: SA31984 Secunia Advisory: SA31985 Secunia Advisory: SA32007 Secunia Advisory: SA32010 Secunia Advisory: SA32012 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html MISC http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/ http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205 FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 CONFIRM http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~ http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html BID 31346

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