Bug 168740

Summary:	CAN-2005-2968 Firefox improper command line URL sanitization
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-785	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-19 21:55:11 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 firefox on the command line does not properly escape dangerous
characters before handing the URL to the shell.

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-22 20:15:01 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-785.html