Several vulnerabilities were reported in Firefox, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands or conduct spoofing/phishing attacks. Fixed vulnerabilities are :
- Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) homograph spoofing
- Unsafe /tmp/plugtmp directory exploitable to erase user's files
- Plugins can be used to load privileged content
- Cross-site scripting by dropping javascript: link on tab
- Image drag and drop executable spoofing
- HTTP auth prompt tab spoofing
- Download dialog source spoofing
- Download dialog spoofing using Content-Disposition header
- Overwrite arbitrary files downloading .lnk twice
- XSLT can include stylesheets from arbitrary hosts
- Autocomplete data leak
- Memory overwrite in string library
- Install source spoofing with user:pass@host
- Spoofing download and security dialogs with overlapping windows
- Heap overflow possible in UTF8 to Unicode conversion
- SSL "secure site" indicator spoofing
- Window Injection Spoofing
ChangeLog
2005-02-27 : Initial release
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