A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla 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 command-line options supplied by third-party applications (e.g. Quicktime), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page. This vulnerability is related to : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3155 - FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2473
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Petko D. Petkov.
ChangeLog
2007-09-19 : Initial release
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