Mozilla Firefox Cross Site Scripting Attack
Publish date: July 21, 2015
Severity: MEDIUM
CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-4065
Advisory Date: JUL 21, 2015
DESCRIPTION
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allow remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via byte order mark (BOM) characters that are removed from JavaScript code before execution, aka "Stripped BOM characters bug."
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1002897
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1002897 - Mozilla Firefox Cross Site Scripting Attack
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- mozilla firefox 0.10
- mozilla firefox 0.10.1
- mozilla firefox 0.8
- mozilla firefox 0.9
- mozilla firefox 0.9.1
- mozilla firefox 0.9.2
- mozilla firefox 0.9.3
- mozilla firefox 0.9_rc
- mozilla firefox 1.0
- mozilla firefox 1.0.1
- mozilla firefox 1.0.2
- mozilla firefox 1.0.3
- mozilla firefox 1.0.4
- mozilla firefox 1.0.5
- mozilla firefox 1.0.6
- mozilla firefox 1.0.7
- mozilla firefox 1.0.8
- mozilla firefox 1.5
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.10
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.11
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.12
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8
- mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9
- mozilla firefox 1.5.1
- mozilla firefox 1.5.2
- mozilla firefox 1.5.3
- mozilla firefox 1.5.4
- mozilla firefox 1.5.5
- mozilla firefox 1.5.6
- mozilla firefox 1.5.7
- mozilla firefox 1.8
- mozilla firefox 2.0
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15
- mozilla firefox 2.0.0.16
- mozilla firefox 3.0
- mozilla firefox 3.0.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.2
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.3
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.4
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.5
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.6
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.7
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.8
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.9
- mozilla seamonkey 1.0.99
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.1
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.10
- mozilla seamonkey 1.1.11
- mozilla thunderbird 0.1
- mozilla thunderbird 0.2
- mozilla thunderbird 0.3
- mozilla thunderbird 0.4
- mozilla thunderbird 0.5
- mozilla thunderbird 0.6
- mozilla thunderbird 0.7
- mozilla thunderbird 0.7.1
- mozilla thunderbird 0.7.2
- mozilla thunderbird 0.7.3
- mozilla thunderbird 0.8
- mozilla thunderbird 0.9
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.1
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.2
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.3
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.4
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.5
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.6
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.7
- mozilla thunderbird 1.0.8
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.1
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.10
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.11
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.2
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.3
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.4
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.6
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.7
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.8
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.9
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.1
- mozilla thunderbird 1.5.2
- mozilla thunderbird 1.7.1
- mozilla thunderbird 1.7.3
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.0
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.1
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.11
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.12
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.13
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.14
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.15
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.16
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.2
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.3
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.4
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.5
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.6
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.8
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0.0.9
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.12
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.13
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.14
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.4
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.5
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.6
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_.9
- mozilla thunderbird 2.0_8
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