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Mozilla Firefox 3 URI Launching and XUL Error Page Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31106
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Release Date:
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2008-07-16
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Last Update:
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2008-07-28
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Popularity:
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8,201 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Spoofing
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Firefox 3, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, potentially conduct spoofing attacks, or compromise a user's system.
1) A vulnerability can be exploited to launch e.g. "file" or "chrome:" URIs in Firefox.
For more information see:
SA31120
2) Input passed to XUL based error pages is not properly sanitised before being returned to a user and can be exploited to e.g. conduct spoofing attacks.
In combination with vulnerability #1 this can be exploited to inject arbitrary script code and execute arbitrary code in "chrome" context, but requires that a specially crafted URI is passed to Firefox and that Firefox is not running.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.0.1.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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