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Sid
20814

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Summary:
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in firefox.

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Impact:
Denial of Service. Information disclosure. Loss of integrity. 

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Detailed Information:
The favicon functionality in Firefox before 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a <LINK rel="icon"> tag with a javascript: URL in the href attribute, aka "Firelinking."

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Affected Systems:
mozilla firefox 0.10
mozilla firefox 0.10.1
mozilla firefox 0.8
mozilla firefox 0.9
mozilla firefox 0.9.1
mozilla firefox 0.9.2
mozilla firefox 0.9.3
mozilla firefox 1.0
mozilla firefox 1.0.1
mozilla firefox 1.0.2

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Attack Scenarios:


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Ease of Attack:
Medium.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action:
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version of the software.

Apply the appropriate vendor supplied patches.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/

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Additional References:

NIST CVE-2005-1155:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2005-1155
  
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