CVE-2009-5017 (GCVE-0-2009-5017)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-11-12 21:00
Modified
2024-09-16 17:44
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1210.
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