CVE-2007-4841

Impact

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a (1) mailto, (2) nntp, (3) news, or (4) snews URI with invalid "%" encoding, related to improper file type handling on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 installed, a variant of CVE-2007-3845.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27311
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27315
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27360
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27744
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28363
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28398
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.471007
• http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-36.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25543
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3544
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083
• http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/09/01/firefox-file-handling-woes/
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27311
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27315
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27360
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27414
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27744
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28363