CVE-2007-0981
HIGHEPSS 96th pctlDescription
Mozilla based browsers, including Firefox before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8, allow remote attackers to bypass the same origin policy, steal cookies, and conduct other attacks by writing a URI with a null byte to the hostname (location.hostname) DOM property, due to interactions with DNS resolver code.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2713
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2728
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://lcamtuf.dione.cc/ffhostname.html
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Mar/0001.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0077.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24175
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24205
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24238
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24287
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24290
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24293
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24320
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24328
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24333
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24342
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24343
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24384
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24393
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24395
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24437
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24455
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24457
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24650
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25588
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-04.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2262
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017654
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.374851
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1336
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-08.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/885753
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:050
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-07.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_22_mozilla.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/32104
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0078.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0079.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0097.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0108.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460126/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460217/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461336/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461809/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22566
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-428-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0624
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0718
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
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