National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2968
Original release date:09/20/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of Mozilla and Firefox as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#914681
Name: VU#914681
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307185
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16869
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-186-2
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-186-1
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:785
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-58.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-1824
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-1794
Type: Advisory
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-200-1
External Source: BID
Name: 15495
External Source: BID
Name: 14888
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:791
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:174
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-868
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-866
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17284
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17263
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17149
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17090
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17042
External Source: SCO
Name: SCOSA-2005.49