Bug 630074 – CVE-2010-2768 Mozilla UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using <object> type attribute (MFSA 2010-61)

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Bug 630074 - (CVE-2010-2768) CVE-2010-2768 Mozilla UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using <object> type attribute (MFSA 2010-61)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2768 Mozilla UTF-7 XSS by overriding document charset using <object>...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2010-2768

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2010-09-03 12:08 EDT by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2016-03-04 07:23 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-04-12 14:45:04 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2010:0680	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: seamonkey security update	2010-09-07 21:09:16 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2010:0681	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2010-09-07 20:33:03 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2010:0682	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: thunderbird security update	2010-09-07 20:06:28 EDT

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Description Josh Bressers 2010-09-03 12:08:46 EDT

Security researchers David Lin-Shung Huang and Collin Jackson of Carnegie
Mellon University CyLab reported that the type attribute of an <object> tag
can override the charset of a framed HTML document, even when the document
is included across origins. A page could be constructed containing such an
<object> tag which sets the charset of the framed document to UTF-7. This
could potentially allow an attacker to inject UTF-7 encoded JavaScript into
a site, bypassing the site's XSS filters, and then executing the code using
the above technique.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2010-09-07 19:32:19 EDT

This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-61.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-07 20:06:57 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0682 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0682.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-07 20:34:13 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0681 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0681.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-07 21:10:18 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2010:0680 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0680.html

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