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CVE-2008-1240

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2008-03-30 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2008-1240
Phase Assigned(20080310)

Description

LiveConnect in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9 does not properly parse the content origin for jar: URIs before sending them to the Java plugin, which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary ports on the local machine. NOTE: this is closely related to CVE-2008-1195.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20080327 rPSA-2008-0128-1 firefox
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-18.html
CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0128
DEBIAN DSA-1532
DEBIAN DSA-1534
DEBIAN DSA-1535
GENTOO GLSA-200805-18
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2008:080
SUNALERT 238492
SUSE SUSE-SA:2008:019
UBUNTU USN-592-1
CERT TA08-087A
BID 28448
VUPEN ADV-2008-0998
VUPEN ADV-2008-1793
SECUNIA 29560
SECUNIA 29539
SECUNIA 29558
SECUNIA 29616
SECUNIA 29526
SECUNIA 29541
SECUNIA 29547
SECUNIA 29645
SECUNIA 30327
SECUNIA 30620
XF mozilla-liveconnect-unauthorized-access(41458)