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CVE-2007-0996 Detail

Description

The child frames in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 inherit the default charset from the parent window, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.


Metrics

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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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://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
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.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22694
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017702
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10086

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0996
NVD Published Date:
02/26/2007
NVD Last Modified:
10/16/2018
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.