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CVE-2008-1036 (GCVE-0-2008-1036)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-02 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:08
VLAI
Summary
The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and other operating systems omits some invalid character sequences during conversion of some character encodings, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
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http://secunia.com/advisories/30430 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2008-05-28 00:00
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