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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2006-2783

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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2006-2783

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
06/02/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2012
Modified
09/02/2015

Description

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird before 1.5.0.4 strip the Unicode Byte-order-Mark (BOM) from a UTF-8 page before the page is passed to the parser, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a BOM sequence in the middle of a dangerous tag such as SCRIPT.

Solution(s)

  • apple-safari-upgrade-4_0
  • apple-safari-windows-uninstall

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