National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5015

Overview

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript with chrome privileges via malicious code in a file that has already been saved on the local system.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA08-319A

Name: TA08-319A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-319A.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-9669

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447579

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0977

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0977

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3146

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3146

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1021191

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021191

External Source: BID

Name: 32281

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32281

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0978

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-51.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:230

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-667-1

Hyperlink:http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 256408

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 34501

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/34501

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32778

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32778

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32721

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32721

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32713

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32713

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32695

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32695

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11063

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11063

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2008:055

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11063

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11063