CVE-2008-1036

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
http://secunia.com/advisories/34290
http://secunia.com/advisories/34777
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020139
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0064
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1762
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0296.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29412
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29488
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-747-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html

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