Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly support the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1999-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-0193 Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.18 and 3.5.x before 3.5.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.3, does not properly support the application/octet-stream content type as a protection mechanism against execution of web script in certain circumstances involving SVG and the EMBED element, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an embedded SVG document.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-895-1 Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-896-1 Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T00:37:54.128Z

Reserved: 2010-01-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-0162

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-02-22T13:00:02.093

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-0162

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-02-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-0162 - Bugzilla

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