National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3376

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-62.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-62.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511521

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511521

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0650

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0650

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-0648

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0648

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3334

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3334

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-915-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-915-1

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0154

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2010:0153

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2009:294

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:294

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 272909

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-272909-1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38977

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38977

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6541

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6541

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11218

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11218

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:013

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11218

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11218

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6541

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6541