Mozilla Firefox 1.x before 1.5 and 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to trick users into downloading and saving an executable file via an image that is overlaid by a transparent image link that points to the executable, which causes the executable to be saved when the user clicks the "Save image as..." option. NOTE: this attack is made easier due to a GUI truncation issue that prevents the user from seeing the malicious extension when there is extra whitespace in the filename.
References
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ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.26/SCOSA-2006.26.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Apr/0003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19631 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19721 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19746 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19759 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19794 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19852 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19862 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19863 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19902 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19941 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21033 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21622 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102550-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-228526-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-205.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1044 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1046 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1051 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-12.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200604-18.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:075 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:076 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-13.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438730/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17516 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1356 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293527 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25814 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1548 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/271-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/275-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-04-14T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:19:49.590Z

Reserved: 2006-04-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-1736

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-04-14T10:02:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-18T16:35:26.440

Link: CVE-2006-1736

cve-icon Redhat

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