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Sid
16042

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in firefox.

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Impact:
  Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mozilla 1.7.12 and possibly earlier, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 and possibly earlier, and Netscape 8.1 and possibly earlier, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the -moz-binding CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) property, which does not require that the style sheet have the same origin as the web page, as demonstrated by the compromise of a large number of LiveJournal accounts.

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Affected Systems:
Mozilla firefox 1.0
Mozilla firefox 1.0.1
Mozilla firefox 1.0.2
Mozilla firefox 1.0.3
Mozilla firefox 1.0.4
Mozilla firefox 1.0.5
Mozilla firefox 1.0.6
Mozilla firefox 1.0.7

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Difficult.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2006-0496:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2006-0496
  
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