CVE-2026-72522

CVE-2026-72522 affects libexpat before 2.8.3, where an out-of-bounds read and infinite loop occur because low surrogates are treated the same as high surrogates in the *_toUtf16 functions. The vulnerability is an availability issue (HIGH impact) with local attack requirements and no confidentiali...

SeBERTis: A Framework for Producing Classifiers of Security-Related Issue Reports

Monitoring issue tracker submissions is a crucial software maintenance activity. A key goal is the prioritization of high risk, security-related bugs. If such bugs can be recognized early, the risk of propagation to dependent products and endangerment of stakeholder benefits can be mitigated. To...

Seeking Flat Minima over Diverse Surrogates for Improved Adversarial Transferability: a Theoretical Framework and Algorithmic Instantiation

Whitepaper called Seeking Flat Minima Over Diverse Surrogates For Improved Adversarial Transferability: A Theoretical Framework And Algorithmic Instantiation...

SUSE CVE-2008-4066

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting XSS protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&56325ascript" sequence, a...

python-ujson: improper decoding of escaped surrogate characters may lead to string corruption, key confusion or value overwriting

UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Affected versions were found to improperly decode certain characters. JSON strings that contain escaped surrogate characters not part of a proper surrogate pair were decoded incorrectly. Besides corrupti...

Updated python-ujson packages fix security vulnerability

Add support for arbitrary size integers. Replace 'wchart' string decoding implementation with a 'uint32t'-based one; fix handling of surrogates on decoding CVE-2022-31116 Potential double free of buffer during string decoding - Fix memory leak on encoding errors when the buffer was resized -...

MAL-2022-6623 Malicious code in tracker-surrogates (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware e026c108a2d361fe7ba9fb3235a5d07991ca7abf609e71620c58819b65538c1c Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in tracker-surrogates (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware e026c108a2d361fe7ba9fb3235a5d07991ca7abf609e71620c58819b65538c1c Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

DNI’s Annual Threat Assessment

The office of the Director of National Intelligence released its "Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community." Cybersecurity is covered on pages 20-21. Nothing surprising: Cyber threats from nation states and their surrogates will remain acute. States increasing use of cyber...

Firefox browser engine crashes

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to 1...

CVE-2009-1392

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.22, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption and application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to 1...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-43

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-43 Title: BOM characters, low surrogates stripped from JavaScript before execution Impact: Moderate Announced: September 23, 2008 Reporter: Dave Reed, Chris Weber, Gareth Heyes Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.0.2 Firefox...

CVE-2008-4066

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting XSS protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&56325ascript" sequence, a...

Cross site scripting

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting XSS protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&56325ascript" sequence, a...

Mozilla low surrogates stripped from JavaScript before execution

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, and other versions before 2.0.0.17, allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site scripting XSS protection mechanisms and conduct XSS attacks via HTML-escaped low surrogate characters that are ignored by the HTML parser, as demonstrated by a "jav&56325ascript" sequence, a...