CVE-2008-2933

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-07-15
Bugzilla:
454697: CVE-2008-2933 Firefox command line URL launches multi-tabs

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.16, and 3.x before 3.0.1, interprets '|' (pipe) characters in a command-line URI as requests to open multiple tabs, which allows remote attackers to access chrome:i URIs, or read arbitrary local files via manipulations involving a series of URIs that is not entirely handled by a vector application, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2008-2540. NOTE: this issue exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2005-2267.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2933 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:0597 2008-07-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0598 2008-07-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 4.5 (firefox) RHSA-2008:0598 2008-07-16

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