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Bug 168737

Summary:	CAN-2005-2968 Mozilla improper command line URL sanitization
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	mozilla	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=important,public=20050906,reported=20050913,source=xchat
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-19 21:45:51 UTC

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 21:46:43 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-09-21 07:37:46 UTC

Note this is rated important not critical - a user would have to be tricked into
clicking on a link in an external application that contains the backtick characters.

Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-09-22 12:35:41 UTC

After investigating the shell scripts Red Hat ships, we have determined that our
Mozilla pakcages are not vulnerable to this issue.