Firefox 1.0.6 and Mozilla 1.7.10 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL that is provided to the browser on the command line, which is sent unfiltered to bash.

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Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-186-1 Mozilla and Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-200-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:53:29.713Z

Reserved: 2005-09-19T04:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2968

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-09-20T22:03:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-2968

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2005-09-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-2968 - Bugzilla

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