PT-2005-1638 · Mozilla+1 · Mozilla Firefox+3

Phil Ringnalda + 1 · Published 2005-02-28 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2005-0590

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1 Thunderbird versions prior to 1.0.1 Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to spoof the hostname of the host performing the installation via a long user:pass sequence in the URL. This sequence appears before the real hostname in the installation confirmation dialog.

Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 1.0.1, update to version 1.0.1 or later to resolve the issue. For Thunderbird versions prior to 1.0.1, update to version 1.0.1 or later to resolve the issue. For Mozilla versions prior to 1.7.6, update to version 1.7.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-0590

RHSA-2005:176

RHSA-2005_176

RHSA-2005_384

Affected Products

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox

Red Hat

Thunderbird

References · 62

• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-30.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-17.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_04_25.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-176.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0590 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-10.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-384.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268059 · Patch
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0146.html · Note
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-February/031459.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0527.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0591.html · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19823 · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0233.html · Note
• https://redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2005-0586.html · Note