CVE-2009-0356

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-02-04
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.1
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2009-0256	2009-02-04
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)	ELSA-2009-0256	2009-02-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2009-0256	2009-02-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2009-0256	2009-02-04
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2009-0256	2009-02-04