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Mozilla Firefox JAR Protocol Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Firefox JAR Protocol Client-Side Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-3818
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5947
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-11-09

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mozilla Firefox, which could be exploited to conduct cross site scripting attacks and gain knowledge of sensitive information [...]

Solution

Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 2.0.0.10 :
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Upgrade to Mozilla SeaMonkey version 1.1.7 :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Jesse Ruderman, Petko D. Petkov, and beford.org.

ChangeLog

2007-11-09 : Initial release
2007-11-26 : Updated Solution

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