Bug 815021 (CVE-2012-0471) - CVE-2012-0471 Mozilla: Potential XSS via multibyte content processing errors (MFSA 2012-24)
Summary: CVE-2012-0471 Mozilla: Potential XSS via multibyte content processing errors ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-0471
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 812268
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Reported: 2012-04-22 06:26 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 12:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-04-24 21:01:25 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0515 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-04-24 23:55:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0516 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-04-24 23:44:08 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-22 06:26:14 UTC 
Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software found a multi-octet encoding issue where certain octets will destroy the following octets in the processing of some multibyte character sets. This can leave users vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks on maliciously crafted web pages. 

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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-24.html
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-04-24 17:51:08 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.  Upstream acknowledges Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software as the original reporter.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:46:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0516 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0516.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:58:45 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0515 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0515.html
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