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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.


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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070202-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070301-01-P.asc CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://osvdb.org/33812 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24205 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24287 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24290 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24320 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24328 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24333 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24342 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24343 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24384 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24395 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24455 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24457 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24650 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/25588 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22694 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017702 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1103 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10086 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

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:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.