CVE-2006-2783 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20376 http://secunia.com/advisories/20382 http://secunia.com/advisories/20561 http://secunia.com/advisories/20709 http://secunia.com/advisories/21134 http://secunia.com/advisories/21176 http://secunia.com/advisories/21178 http://secunia.com/advisories/21183 http://secunia.com/advisories/21188 http://secunia.com/advisories/21210 http://secunia.com/advisories/21269 http://secunia.com/advisories/21270 http://secunia.com/advisories/21324 http://secunia.com/advisories/21336 http://secunia.com/advisories/21532 http://secunia.com/advisories/21607 http://secunia.com/advisories/21631 http://secunia.com/advisories/22065 http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016214 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-12.xml http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-21.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:143 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:145 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:146 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-42.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0578.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0594.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0610.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0611.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446657/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3749 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26852 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10772 https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/296-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/297-3/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/323-1/