The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1336-1 New mozilla-firefox packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-0990 The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-428-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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References
Link Providers
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713 cve-icon cve-icon
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728 cve-icon cve-icon
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/33812 cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24287 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24290 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24320 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24328 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24333 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24342 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24343 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24384 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24395 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24455 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24457 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24650 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25588 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22694 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017702 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0996 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10086 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0996 cve-icon
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:43:21.663Z

Reserved: 2007-02-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-0996

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-02-27T02:28:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-0996

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2007-02-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-0996 - Bugzilla

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