Name | CVE-2006-2783 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-1118, DSA-1120, DSA-1134-1 |
Debian Bugs | 535793, 561760 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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firefox (PTS) | sid | 131.0-1 | fixed |
thunderbird (PTS) | bullseye | 1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:115.15.0-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:115.12.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 1:115.15.0-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1:128.2.0esr-1 | fixed |
| sid | 1:128.2.3esr-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
MFSA-2006-42
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/33380
[lenny] - qt4-x11 <no-dsa> (Minor impact, no apps in Lenny which use qtwebkit )
QT4 might be fixed earlier, but only 4.6.2 was checked against, Lenny is affected
- kdelibs <not-affected> (bug #561765)