Mozilla Firefox Lets Remote Web Sites Corrupt the Password Store in Certain Cases
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1019334
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1019334
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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0417
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Feb 8 2008
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Impact: Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory
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Version(s): prior to 2.0.0.12
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote web site can corrupt the target user's password store in certain cases.
When the target user saves their password for a remote web site, the remote web site can inject newline characters into the browser's password store to corrupt saved passwords for other sites.
Justin Dolske reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote web site can corrupt the target user's password store when the target user saves their password for that site.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.12).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-04.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-04.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Input validation error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 23:46:22 -0500
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-04.html
CVE-2008-0417
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