Mozilla Firefox Character Processing Bugs Permit Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020920
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1020920
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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4065
, CVE-2008-4066
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 24 2008
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Impact: Disclosure of authentication information, Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory
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Version(s): prior to 2.0.0.17, 3.0 prior to 3.0.2
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Description: Two vulnerabilities were reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
The software strips certain BOM characters from JavaScript code and ignores certain HTML-escaped low surrogate characters. A remote
user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by a target user, will cause arbitrary scripting code to be executed by
the target user's browser.
Dave Reed and Gareth Heyes reported these vulnerabilities.
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Impact: A remote user can access the target user's cookies (including authentication cookies), if any, associated with the accessed site,
access data recently submitted by the target user via web form to the site, or take actions on the site acting as the target user.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.17, 3.0.2).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Input validation error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:15:37 -0400
Subject: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-43.html
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CVE-2008-4065
CVE-2008-4066
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