CVE-2009-3376

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-10-29

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0, does not properly handle a right-to-left override (aka RLO or U+202E) Unicode character in a download filename, which allows remote attackers to spoof file extensions via a crafted filename, as demonstrated by displaying a non-executable extension for an executable file.

See more information about CVE-2009-3376 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	9.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2009-1531	2009-10-28
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2009-1530	2009-10-28
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nspr)	ELSA-2009-1530	2009-10-28
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2009-1531	2009-10-28
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2010-0154	2010-03-17
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2009-1530	2009-10-28
Oracle Linux version 5 (nspr)	ELSA-2009-1530	2009-10-28
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2009-1530	2009-10-28

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