CVE-2008-4065

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-09-24

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka Stripped BOM characters bug.

See more information about CVE-2008-4065 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2008-0882	2008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2008-0908	2008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2008-0879	2008-09-24

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