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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0587
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-0587

Description:
Firefox before 1.0.1 and Mozilla before 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK (link) file twice, which overwrites the file that was referenced in the first .LNK file.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA19823

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval100037.html

CONFIRM
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-21.html

BID
  12659


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