CVE-2007-0996 Information

Description

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2 and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713 http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html http://osvdb.org/33812 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html http://secunia.com/advisories/24205 http://secunia.com/advisories/24287 http://secunia.com/advisories/24290 http://secunia.com/advisories/24320 http://secunia.com/advisories/24328 http://secunia.com/advisories/24333 http://secunia.com/advisories/24342 http://secunia.com/advisories/24343 http://secunia.com/advisories/24384 http://secunia.com/advisories/24395 http://secunia.com/advisories/24455 http://secunia.com/advisories/24457 http://secunia.com/advisories/24650 http://secunia.com/advisories/25588 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336 http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22694 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017702 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10086