National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1839

Overview

Mozilla Firefox 3 before 3.0.11 associates an incorrect principal with a file: URL loaded through the location bar, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read files via a crafted HTML document, aka a "file-URL-to-file-URL scripting" attack.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1572

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1572

External Source: BID

Name: 35326

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35326

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-6411

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00657.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-6366

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00574.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2009:1095

Hyperlink:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1095.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503581

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503581

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479943

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479943

External Source: BID

Name: 35386

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35386

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-30.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-30.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1820

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1820

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 264308

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-264308-1

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2009-167-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.372468

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35468

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35468

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35431

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35431

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35415

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35415

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35331

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35331

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9256

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9256

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 55163

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/55163

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9256

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9256