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.
Published: 2008-06-02
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 2.6% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1762-1 New icu packages fix cross site scripting
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-1047 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-747-1 ICU vulnerability
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Apple Mac Os X Mac Os X Server
Redhat Enterprise Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:08:57.496Z

Reserved: 2008-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-1036

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-06-02T21:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-1036

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-05-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1036 - Bugzilla

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