CVE-2008-4723

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-10-21
Bugzilla:
468397: CVE-2008-4723 firefox: remote arbitrary web script or HTML injection via an ftp:// URL

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 through 3.0.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an ftp:// URL for an HTML document within a (1) JPG, (2) PDF, or (3) TXT file. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Find out more about CVE-2008-4723 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security flaw. Firefox is handling the ftp:// URL as expected.

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