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CVE-2009-5017
Published: Nov 12, 2010
Modified: Sep 16, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634
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http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0
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