cve-2009-5017
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-11-12 21:00
Modified
2024-09-16 17:44
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0
cve@mitre.orghttp://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.htmlExploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634
Impacted products
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