CVE-2009-5017

Publication date

2010-11-12 21:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.