CVE-2008-4066

NameCVE-2008-4066
DescriptionMozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&#56325ascript" sequence, aka "HTML escaped low surrogates bug."
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1649-1, DSA-1669-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
icedove (PTS)jessie1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
iceapesourceetch(unfixed)end-of-life
iceapesource(unstable)1.1.12-1
icedovesource(unstable)2.0.0.17-1
iceweaselsourceetch2.0.0.17-0etch1DSA-1649-1
iceweaselsource(unstable)3.0.1-1
xulrunnersourceetch1.8.0.15~pre080614h-0etch1DSA-1669-1
xulrunnersource(unstable)1.9.0.1-1

Notes

[etch] - iceape <end-of-life> (Etch Packages no longer covered by security support)

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