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CVE-2012-4207

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-11-20	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-4207 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-4207
Phase	Assigned(20120808)

Description

The HZ-GB-2312 character-set implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not properly handle a ~ (tilde) character in proximity to a chunk delimiter, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted document.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-101.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801681
CONFIRM	http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
DEBIAN	DSA-2583
DEBIAN	DSA-2584
DEBIAN	DSA-2588
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2012:173
REDHAT	RHSA-2012:1482
REDHAT	RHSA-2012:1483
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1583
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1585
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1586
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1592
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:0175
UBUNTU	USN-1638-1
UBUNTU	USN-1638-3
UBUNTU	USN-1638-2
UBUNTU	USN-1636-1
BID	56632
OSVDB	87587
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16955
SECUNIA	51359
SECUNIA	51360
SECUNIA	51369
SECUNIA	51381
SECUNIA	51434
SECUNIA	51439
SECUNIA	51440
SECUNIA	51370
XF	firefox-hzgb2312-xss(80179)