CVE-2006-2783

NameCVE-2006-2783
DescriptionMozilla 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1118, DSA-1120, DSA-1134-1
Debian Bugs535793, 561760

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid131.0-1fixed
thunderbird (PTS)bullseye1:115.12.0-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1:115.15.0-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm1:115.12.0-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)1:115.15.0-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie1:128.2.0esr-1fixed
sid1:128.2.3esr-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1medium
kdelibssource(unstable)(not affected)
mozillasourcesarge2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1DSA-1118
mozillasource(unstable)2:1.7.13-0.3medium
mozilla-firefoxsourcesarge1.0.4-2sarge9DSA-1120
mozilla-thunderbirdsourcesarge1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8aDSA-1134-1
qt4-x11source(unstable)4:4.6.2-4low561760
thunderbirdsource(unstable)1.5.0.4-1medium
webkitsource(unstable)1.0.1-1535793
xulrunnersource(unstable)1.8.0.4-1medium

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)

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