Bug 751935 (CVE-2011-3656) - CVE-2011-3656 Mozilla: Possible XSS via HTTP 0.9 errors and content-sniffing
Summary: CVE-2011-3656 Mozilla: Possible XSS via HTTP 0.9 errors and content-sniffing
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2011-3656
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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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-08 04:40 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-07-29 12:52:32 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-11-08 04:40:26 UTC 
Some non-HTTP protocols running on a server might respond to HTTP requests with an error message, and return (parts of) the incoming request. If web browsers content-sniff data returned withouth HTTP headers, an attacker might be able to send data to such a service, and have the server return an error which the browser interprets as HTML/JS. This opens up for XSS.

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667907
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-11-08 09:02:40 UTC 
Upstream bug says, this is embargoed till 28th Dec 2011. However 3.6.24 likely has the fix, perhaps the bug wont be made public.
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