A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a design error within the "FirefoxURL://" URI handler which is registered by the application during the installation process on Windows, which could be exploited by remote attackers to pass malicious arguments to "FirefoxURL://" and execute arbitrary commands with Chrome privileges by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page using Internet Explorer.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Billy (BK) Rios, Nate Mcfeters, Raghav (the Pope) Dube and Thor Larholm.
ChangeLog
2007-07-10 : Initial release
2007-07-17 : Updated Solution
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