Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting nss-devel package, versions <0:3.12.7-2.0.1.el5


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE5-NSSDEVEL-2452779
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed9 Sept 2010

Introduced: 9 Sep 2010

CVE-2010-2768  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:5 nss-devel to version 0:3.12.7-2.0.1.el5 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2010-0681.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss-devel package and not the nss-devel package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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