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CVE-2010-2768

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2010-09-08	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2010-2768 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2010-2768
Phase	Assigned(20100714)

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.12 and 3.6.x before 3.6.9, Thunderbird before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.7 do not properly restrict use of the type attribute of an OBJECT element to set a document's charset, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via UTF-7 encoding.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579744
CONFIRM	http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox
CONFIRM	http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100110210
CONFIRM	http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100112690
DEBIAN	DSA-2106
FEDORA	FEDORA-2010-14362
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2010:173
SUSE	SUSE-SA:2010:049
BID	43101
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11735
SECUNIA	42867
VUPEN	ADV-2010-2323
VUPEN	ADV-2011-0061