Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting icedove package, versions <2.0.0.17-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
87.5% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-ICEDOVE-379062
  • published24 Sept 2008
  • disclosed24 Sept 2008

Introduced: 24 Sep 2008

CVE-2008-4066  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 icedove to version 2.0.0.17-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icedove package and not the icedove package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."

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