CVE-2009-5017 | BDVDB-2026-44006 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

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

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12010-11-12Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-09-16Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.