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CVE-2006-2783

CVE-2006-2783

EPSS 1.6%
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.htmlhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0609.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/20376http://secunia.com/advisories/20382http://secunia.com/advisories/20561http://secunia.com/advisories/20709http://secunia.com/advisories/21134http://secunia.com/advisories/21176http://secunia.com/advisories/21178http://secunia.com/advisories/21183http://secunia.com/advisories/21188