A vulnerability was identified in Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Firefox for Linux, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing, via the shell script used by Firefox to parse URLs supplied by external programs, a specially crafted URL containing malicious shell commands enclosed within backquote characters, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to click on a malicious link via an external program (e.g. Thunderbird or Evolution).
Example : # firefox http://local\`find\`host (will execute the command "find").
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Peter Zelezny
ChangeLog
2005-09-20 : Initial release
2005-09-21 : Updated affected products and solution
2005-09-22 : Updated affected products and solution
2005-10-01 : Updated solution (Thunderbird)
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