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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2933
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CVE-2008-2933

Description:
Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.16, and 3.x before 3.0.1, interprets '|' (pipe) characters in a command-line URI as requests to open multiple tabs, which allows remote attackers to access chrome:i URIs, or read arbitrary local files via manipulations involving a series of URIs that is not entirely handled by a vector application, as exploited in conjunction with CVE-2008-2540. NOTE: this issue exists because of an insufficient fix for CVE-2005-2267.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43832

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-623-1
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-1
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-626-2

ST
  1020500

SLACKWARE
  http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.380974

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31106
  Secunia Advisory: SA31120
  Secunia Advisory: SA31121
  Secunia Advisory: SA31129
  Secunia Advisory: SA31157
  Secunia Advisory: SA31145
  Secunia Advisory: SA31176
  Secunia Advisory: SA31183
  Secunia Advisory: SA31270
  Secunia Advisory: SA31261
  Secunia Advisory: SA31306
  Secunia Advisory: SA31377

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0598.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0597.html

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:148

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-03.xml

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1615
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1614

CONFIRM
  http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=InfoDocument-patchbuilder-readme5031400
  http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0238
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-35.html

CERT-VN
  130923

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494860/100/0/threaded

BID
  30242


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