Mozilla Firefox Stack Overflow in Parsing UTF-8 URLs Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1020913
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1020913
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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0016
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Sep 24 2008
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Impact: Execution of arbitrary code via network, User access 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 2.0.0.17
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create a URL with specially crafted UTF-8 characters that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a stack
overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the target user.
SeaMonkey
is also affected.
Justin Schuh and Tom Cross of the IBM X-Force and Peter Williams of IBM Watson Labs reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user can create a URL that, when loaded by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.17).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-37.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-37.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Boundary 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: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:20:54 -0400
Subject: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-37.html
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CVE-2008-0016
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