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Wizz RSS News Reader Feed Handling Remote Chrome Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : Wizz RSS News Reader Feed Handling Remote Chrome Code Execution Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-1425
CVE ID : CVE-2007-2060
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-04-17

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Wizz RSS News Reader (extension for Firefox), which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing RSS feeds, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code with chrome privileges by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted web page.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Jefferson Ogata (NOAA Computer Incident Response Team)

ChangeLog

2007-04-17 : Initial release

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