CVE-2009-0356
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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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00001.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0256.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:044
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-04.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00240.html
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