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CVE-2009-5017
Description	Mozilla Firefox before 3.6 Beta 3 does not properly handle overlong UTF-8 encoding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a crafted string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1210.
Impact	CVSS v2 : 4.3 MEDIUM
Type	CWE-79
Attack Vector	CVSSv2 Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Quick links	CVE, NVD, CERT, Metasploit, Exploit-db, Fulldisc, Bugtraq, Microsoft, Red Hat, Debian, GitHub code/issues, Google
References	http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/e42c563313a0 http://sirdarckcat.blogspot.com/2009/10/couple-of-unicode-issues-on-php-and.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511859 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522634