| Revision Date: | 2013-04-29 | Version: | 12 | | Title: | Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582. | | Description: | Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.6 and SeaMonkey do not block links to the (1) about:plugins and (2) about:config URIs from .desktop files, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges via vectors involving the URL field in a Desktop Entry section of a .desktop file, related to representation of about: URIs as jar:file:// URIs. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-4582. | | Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | | Status: | ACCEPTED | Reference(s): | CVE-2009-0356
| | Platform(s): | CentOS Linux 4
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 4
Oracle Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
| Product(s): | | | Definition Synopsis | | OS Section: RHEL4, CentOS4, Oracle Linux 4 RHEL4, CentOS4 or Oracle Linux 4
The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
OR CentOS Linux 4.x
OR Oracle Linux 4.x
AND Configuration section
nss-devel is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-3.el4
OR firefox is earlier than 0:3.0.6-1.el4
OR nss is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-3.el4
OR nss-tools is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-3.el4
OR OS Section: RHEL5, CentOS5, Oracle Linux 5
RHEL5, CentOS5 or Oracle Linux 5
The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
OR The operating system installed on the system is CentOS Linux 5.x
OR Oracle Linux 5.x
AND Configuration section
nss-pkcs11-devel is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-4.el5
OR xulrunner-devel is earlier than 0:1.9.0.6-1.el5
OR nss is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-4.el5
OR xulrunner is earlier than 0:1.9.0.6-1.el5
OR xulrunner-devel-unstable is earlier than 0:1.9.0.6-1.el5
OR firefox is earlier than 0:3.0.6-1.el5
OR nss-devel is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-4.el5
OR nss-tools is earlier than 0:3.12.2.0-4.el5
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