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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-4841

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-4841

Description:
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a (1) mailto, (2) nntp, (3) news, or (4) snews URI with invalid "%" encoding, related to improper file type handling on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 installed, a variant of CVE-2007-3845.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SLACKWARE
  http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.471007

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27311
  Secunia Advisory: SA27315
  Secunia Advisory: SA27414
  Secunia Advisory: SA27360
  Secunia Advisory: SA28363
  Secunia Advisory: SA28398
  Secunia Advisory: SA27744

MISC
  http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/09/01/firefox-file-handling-woes/

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202

HP
  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742

CONFIRM
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-36.html

BID
  25543


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