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CVE-2008-4065 Details

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka "Stripped BOM characters bug."

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=WZXONb-tqBw~ CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00005.html CVEThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430740 CVEExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31984 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31985 CVEThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mozilla firefox
< 2.0.0.17
>= 3.0, < 3.0.2

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla seamonkey
< 1.1.12

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
mozilla thunderbird
< 2.0.0.17

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
debian debian linux
4.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux
6.06
7.04
7.10
8.04

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-4065
NVD Published Date:
Sep 24, 2008
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2008-4065 Details - Not Deferred