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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 (…
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla | Firefox | through 3.6 Version 3.6 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0
- http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634
- http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0
- http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.html
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634