PT-2008-6180 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Luke Bryan · Published 2008-11-13 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-5015

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.4

Description The issue allows 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. This occurs when a file: URI is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, assigning chrome privileges to the file.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 3.x before 3.0.4, update to version 3.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5015

RHSA-2008:0978

RHSA-2008_0978

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

References · 44

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-256408-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02793 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02792 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02795 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02788 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:230 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0978.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00385.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5015 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02790 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-667-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02789 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02797 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02796 · Security Note