Mozilla Linux Command Line URL Parsing Security Flaw Reported

Posted by tadelste on Sep 20, 2005 7:25 PM EDT
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A critical input validation security vulnerability affecting Linux versions of Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Application Suite has been reported today. The flaw could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a victim's system. The bug exists in the Linux shell scripts that Firefox and the Mozilla Application Suite rely on to parse URLs supplied on the command line or by external programs.

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