Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DSA |
DSA-1118-1 | New Mozilla packages fix several vulnerabilities |
Debian DSA |
DSA-1120-1 | New Mozilla Firefox packages fix several vulnerabilities |
Debian DSA |
DSA-1134-1 | New Mozilla Thunderbird packages fix several vulnerabilities |
EUVD |
EUVD-2006-2780 | Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-296-1 | firefox vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-296-2 | Firefox vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-297-1 | Thunderbird vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-297-3 | Thunderbird vulnerabilities |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-323-1 | mozilla vulnerabilities |
Fixes
Solution
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Workaround
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T18:06:25.809Z
Reserved: 2006-06-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-2783
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-06-02T19:02:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2006-2783
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DSA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN