Multiple Mozilla products character encoding cross-site scripting
| firefox-character-encoding-xss (40488) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Multiple Mozilla products, including Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the 0x80 under Shift_JIS character encoding in a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim's cookie-based authentication credentials.
Platforms Affected:
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Canonical, Ubuntu 6.10
- Canonical, Ubuntu 7.04
- Canonical, Ubuntu 7.10
- Debian, Debian Linux 4.0
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.1
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.10
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.11
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.2
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.3
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.4
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.5
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.6
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.7
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.8
- Mozilla, Firefox 2.0.0.9
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1 Beta
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.0
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.1
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.2
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.3
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.4
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.5
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.6
- Mozilla, SeaMonkey 1.1.7
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.0
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.1
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.10
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.11
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.2
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.3
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.4
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.5
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.7
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.8
- Mozilla, Thunderbird 2.0.0.9
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 2.1 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 2.1 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5 Client Workstation
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 5 Client
- RedHat, Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 Itanium
- Sun, OpenSolaris 2008.5 x86
- Sun, OpenSolaris 2008.5 SPARC
- Sun, OpenSolaris build snv_89 x86
- Sun, OpenSolaris build snv_89 SPARC
- Sun, Solaris 10 x86
- Sun, Solaris 10 SPARC
Remedy:
Refer to MFSA 2008-13 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
For other distributions:
Apply the appropriate update for your system. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- MFSA 2008-13, Multiple XSS vulnerabilities from character encoding at http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-13.html.
- Sun Alert ID: 238492, Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Solaris 10 Firefox may Allow Execution of Arbitrary Code and Access to Unauthorized Data at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-238492-1.
- Sun Alert ID: 239546, Security Vulnerabilities in Thunderbird for Solaris May Result in Privilege Escalation or Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) at http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-239546-1.
- BID-29303: Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Character Encoding Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2008-0416: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) zero-length non-ASCII sequences in certain Asian character sets.
- DSA-1484: xulrunner -- several vulnerabilities
- DSA-1485: icedove -- several vulnerabilities
- DSA-1489: iceweasel -- several vulnerabilities
- FrSIRT/ADV-2008-2091: Sun Security Update Fixes Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
- RHSA-2008-0103: Critical: firefox security update
- RHSA-2008-0104: Critical: seamonkey security update
- SA30620: Sun Solaris Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA31043: Sun Solaris Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
- USN-576-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
- USN-592-1: Firefox vulnerabilities
Reported:
Feb 08, 2008
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