CVE-2008-4066 (GCVE-0-2008-4066)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-24 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00
VLAI?
Summary
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."
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/32025 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-0… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32144 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32010 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32185 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32196 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/32042 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://secunia.com/advisories/32092 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXON… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN96950482/index.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/32007 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-08… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/32845 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/32012 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackw… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32044 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-09… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/34501 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/32082 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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