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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0591

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-0591

Description:
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12 and Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12 does not properly manage a delay timer used in confirmation dialogs, which might allow remote attackers to trick users into confirming an unsafe action, such as remote file execution, by using a timer to change the window focus, aka the "dialog refocus bug" or "ffclick2".

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html

ST
  1019339

SREASON
  http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2781

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA28877
  Secunia Advisory: SA28865
  Secunia Advisory: SA28864
  Secunia Advisory: SA28839
  Secunia Advisory: SA28808
  Secunia Advisory: SA28766
  Secunia Advisory: SA28818
  Secunia Advisory: SA28754
  Secunia Advisory: SA28758
  Secunia Advisory: SA28879
  Secunia Advisory: SA28924
  Secunia Advisory: SA28939
  Secunia Advisory: SA28958
  Secunia Advisory: SA29049
  Secunia Advisory: SA29086
  Secunia Advisory: SA29167
  Secunia Advisory: SA29164
  Secunia Advisory: SA29567

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html

MISC
  http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffclick2/

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:062

FULLDISC
  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-06/0026.html

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484

CONFIRM
  http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html
  http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051
  http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/
  http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-08.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488971/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/470446/100/0/threaded

BID
  27683
  24293


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