Bug 169232

Summary:	[MFSA2005-59] Thunderbird improper command line URL sanitization
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gerwin Krist <gerwinkrist>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-59.html
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Fixed In Version:	1.0.7-1.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Gerwin Krist 2005-09-25 18:11:33 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 (No IDN) Firefox/1.4

Description of problem:
"URLs passed to Linux versions of Firefox on the command-line are not correctly protected against interpretation by the shell. As a result a malicious URL can result in the execution of shell commands with the privileges of the user. If Firefox is set as the default handler for web URLs then opening a URL in another program (for example, links in a mail or chat client) can result in shell command execution."

So not only firefox is affected but also Thunderbird. Fix will come with 1.07 version ....

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Gerwin Krist 2005-09-25 18:12:22 UTC

Page:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-59.html