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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.
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9922
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
Status:
ACCEPTED
Platform(s):
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- CentOS Linux 5
- Oracle Linux 4
- Oracle Linux 5
- CentOS Linux 4
Class:
vulnerability
Reference(s):
- CVE-2009-0356
Product(s):