CVE-2008-4065

medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka "Stripped BOM characters bug."

References

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430740

http://secunia.com/advisories/31984

http://secunia.com/advisories/31985

http://secunia.com/advisories/31987

http://secunia.com/advisories/32007

http://secunia.com/advisories/32010

http://secunia.com/advisories/32011

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/32089

http://secunia.com/advisories/32092

http://secunia.com/advisories/32095

http://secunia.com/advisories/32096

http://secunia.com/advisories/32144

http://secunia.com/advisories/32185

http://secunia.com/advisories/32196

http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

http://secunia.com/advisories/33433

http://secunia.com/advisories/33434

http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45356

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11383

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01335.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01384.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg01403.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1649

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1696

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1697

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-2008-0879.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0882.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0908.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020920

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-645-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-647-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2661

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium