Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Character Encoding Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

  Severity: MEDIUM
  CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-0416
  Advisory Date: JUL 21, 2015

  DESCRIPTION

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain character encodings, including (1) a backspace character that is treated as whitespace, (2) 0x80 with Shift_JIS encoding, and (3) "zero-length non-ASCII sequences" in certain Asian character sets.

  TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION

Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.

  SOLUTION

  Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1000552
  Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1000552 - Generic Cross Site Scripting(XSS) Prevention

  AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION

  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11
  • Mozilla Seamonkey 1.1.7
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.11

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