Bug 168738

Summary:	CAN-2005-2968 Mozilla improper command line URL sanitization
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	4	Keywords:	Security
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OS:	Linux
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-19 21:50:30 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #168737 +++

Upstream bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307185

The URL passed to mozilla on the command line does not properly escape dangerous
characters before handing the URL to the shell.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-09-19 21:53:23 UTC

This issue also affects FC3

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-09-22 12:37:30 UTC

After investigating this issue, we have determined that it does not affect the
Mozilla packages Red Hat ships.