CVE-2009-5017

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 12, 2010
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Nov 12, 2010

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

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

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