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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1942

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-1942

Description:
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4, Netscape 8.1, 8.0.4, and 7.2, and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL, then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image, as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player, or by referencing an "alternate web page."

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25925

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html

ST
  1016202

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA21176
  Secunia Advisory: SA21183
  Secunia Advisory: SA20376
  Secunia Advisory: SA19988
  Secunia Advisory: SA19698
  Secunia Advisory: SA21324
  Secunia Advisory: SA20063
  Secunia Advisory: SA22066

OSVDB
  24713

MISC
  http://www.gavinsharp.com/tmp/ImageVuln.html
  http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-view-image.html

HP
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118

CONFIRM
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-39.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/433539/30/5070/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/433138/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/431267/100/0/threaded

BID
  18228


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