Bug 463234 (CVE-2008-4065) - CVE-2008-4065 Mozilla BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
Summary: CVE-2008-4065 Mozilla BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-4065
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks: 460512 460513 460518 460519 460520
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Reported: 2008-09-22 17:06 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:26 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-23 23:38:00 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0879 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2008-09-24 01:47:37 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0882 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: seamonkey security update 2008-09-24 02:04:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:0908 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: thunderbird security update 2008-10-01 15:35:17 UTC

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2008-09-23 18:19:38 UTC 
From MFSA 2008-43:
Microsoft developer Dave Reed reported that certain BOM characters are
stripped from JavaScript code before it is executed. This can lead to code,
which would otherwise be treated as part of a quoted string, to be
executed. The issue could potentially be used by an attacker to bypass or
evade script filters and perform an XSS attack.
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2008-09-24 00:59:32 UTC 
This is now public
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 10:55:44 UTC 
thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-11-21 11:03:25 UTC 
thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 23:38:00 UTC 
This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0879
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0879
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0882
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2008:0882
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2008:0882)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
RHEL Optional Productivity Applications version 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2008:0908
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