National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1036

Overview

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-150A

Name: TA08-150A

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2008-05-28

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html

External Source: XF

Name: macosx-icu-security-bypass(42717)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42717

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1697

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-747-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1

External Source: BID

Name: 29488

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488

External Source: BID

Name: 29412

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:0296

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1762

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762

External Source: MISC

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020139

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34777

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34777

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34290

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34290

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30430

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30430

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10824

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10824

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10824

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10824