CVE-2009-5017

CVE Details

Release Date:	2010-11-12
Impact:	Low	What is this?

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.

See more information about CVE-2009-5017 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

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2010-0500	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (devhelp)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (esc)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (gnome-python2-extras)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (totem)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (yelp)	ELSA-2010-0501	2010-06-23