National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4066

Overview

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-8429

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

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-8401

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448166

External Source: XF

Name: firefox-htmlparser-security-bypass(45358)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45358

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-647-1

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-645-2

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-645-1

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

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/

Hyperlink:http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2008/06/30/javascript-protocol-fuzz-results/

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020920

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

External Source: BID

Name: 31346

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31346

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0908

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

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0882

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

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:206

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:206

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:205

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:205

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2661

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2661

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1669

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

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-270-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.412123

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-269-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.405232

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2008-269-02

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.379422

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32845

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32845

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32144

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32144

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32092

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32092

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32082

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32082

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32044

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32044

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32042

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32042

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32025

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32025

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32012

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32012

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32010

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32010

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32007

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32007

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31985

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31985

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31984

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31984

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:050

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

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: MISC

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/bluehat/archive/2008/08/14/targeted-fuzzing.aspx