Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 do not properly restrict use of the type attribute of an OBJECT element to set a document's charset, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via UTF-7 encoding.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2106-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2106-2 New xulrunner packages fix regression
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-2772 Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 do not properly restrict use of the type attribute of an OBJECT element to set a document's charset, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via UTF-7 encoding.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-975-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-978-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T02:46:48.602Z

Reserved: 2010-07-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-2768

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-09-09T19:00:02.530

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

Link: CVE-2010-2768

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-09-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-2768 - Bugzilla

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