Bug 168737 - CAN-2005-2968 Mozilla improper command line URL sanitization
Summary: CAN-2005-2968 Mozilla improper command line URL sanitization
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mozilla
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20050906,repo...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-19 21:45 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-22 12:35:41 UTC
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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.
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