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CVE-2007-0981 Detail

Current Description

Mozilla based browsers, including Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8, allow remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, steal cookies, and conduct other attacks by writing a URI with a null byte to the hostname (location.hostname) DOM property, due to interactions with DNS resolver code.


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Hyperlink Resource
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
http://lcamtuf.dione.cc/ffhostname.html Exploit 
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-04.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2262
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017654
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-08.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/885753 US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-07.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460126/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460217/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461809/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22566
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0624
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370445 Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32533
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1081
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9730

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0981
NVD Published Date:
02/15/2007
NVD Last Modified:
10/16/2018
Source:
MITRE