DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2783

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2006-2783

    Published: 2 Jun 2006Last Modified: 7 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2006-2783

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-2783

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: thunderbird

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/thunderbird?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.5.0.4-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High