Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka "firedragging."
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-02-10T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:25.341Z

Reserved: 2005-02-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-0230

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-10-11T01:29:54.200

Link: CVE-2005-0230

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