CVE-2008-5015

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2008-11-12
Bugzilla:
470876: CVE-2008-5015 Mozilla file: URIs inherit chrome privileges

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox 3.x before 3.0.4 assigns chrome privileges to a file: URI when it is accessed in the same tab from a chrome or privileged about: page, which makes it easier for 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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-5015 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHSA-2008:0978 2008-11-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2008:0978 2008-11-13

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