CVE-2006-2783

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CVE-2006-2783

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Upstream information

CVE-2006-2783 at MITRE

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 179011 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:035, published Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:04:48 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:32 2023