CVE-2008-4065

Medium

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka "Stripped BOM characters bug."

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductMozilla Firefox
PublishedSep 24, 2008
First seenSep 24, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mozilla firefoxv < 2.0.0.17, 3.0 ≤ v < 3.0.22.0.0.17, 3.0.2
mozilla seamonkeyv < 1.1.121.1.12
mozilla thunderbirdv < 2.0.0.172.0.0.17
debian debian_linux4.0—
canonical ubuntu_linux6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04—

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