CVE-2009-5017
N/A
Published: November 12, 2010 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFirefox
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1210.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0x_refsource_MISCExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-79
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