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CVE-2008-4065

CVE Details

Release Date:2008-09-24
Impact:Moderate What is this?

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


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


CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 4.3
Vector String: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: None
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: None

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-08822008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (devhelp)ELSA-2008-08822008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)ELSA-2008-08822008-09-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)ELSA-2008-09082008-10-01
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)ELSA-2008-08792008-09-24


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