National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1155

Overview

The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#973309

Name: VU#973309

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/973309

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290036

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290036

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:386

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-386.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:383

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-383.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200504-18

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-18.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 14992

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/14992

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 14938

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/14938

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-37.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/

Hyperlink:http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/

External Source: BID

Name: 15495

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495

External Source: BID

Name: 13216

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13216

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:384

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html

External Source: SCO

Name: SCOSA-2005.49

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100021

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100021

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:100021