MEDIUM
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4, Netscape 8.1, 8.0.4, and 7.2, and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL, then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image, as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player, or by referencing an "alternate web page."
Published Apr 20, 2006
5.1
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.54%
Description
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4, Netscape 8.1, 8.0.4, and 7.2, and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL, then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image, as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player, or by referencing an "alternate web page."
Affected products
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (28)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19698 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19988 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20063 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20376 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21176 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21183 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21324 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.gavinsharp.com/tmp/ImageVuln.html x_refsource_MISCPatch
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-39.html x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-view-image.html x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.osvdb.org/24713 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431267/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433138/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433539/30/5070/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334341 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25925 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 20, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Apr 20, 2006
Link CVE-2006-1942
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a