CVE-2005-2968

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2005-09-06
Bugzilla:
1617768: CVE-2005-2968 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2968 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of Mozilla and Firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (thunderbird) RHSA-2005:791 2005-10-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2005:785 2005-09-22

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