CVE-2009-5017

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1210.

CVSS v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

References

Link	Resource
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859	Patch
http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.html	Exploit
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::beta2::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:3.6:beta1::::::

Information

Published : 2010-11-12 14:00

Updated : 2010-11-30 21:00

NVD link : CVE-2009-5017

Mitre link : CVE-2009-5017

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Products Affected

mozilla

firefox

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