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.
Published: 2010-11-12
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-4975 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.
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Mozilla Firefox
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:44:04.707Z

Reserved: 2010-11-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-5017

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Status : Modified

Published: 2010-11-12T22:00:01.923

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2009-5017

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-08-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-5017 - Bugzilla

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