CVE-2008-1036

Apple Mac OS X - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (15)

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/30430

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34290

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34777

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1

[Patch, US Government Resource] http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42717

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10824

[Third Party Advisory] http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762

Scores

EPSS 0.0264

EPSS Percentile 85.5%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status draft

Affected Products (9)

apple/mac_os_x

apple/mac_os_x

apple/mac_os_x

apple/mac_os_x

apple/mac_os_x_server

apple/mac_os_x_server

apple/mac_os_x_server

apple/mac_os_x_server

redhat/enterprise_linux

Timeline

Published Jun 02, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026