Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1820-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1835 Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.11, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey do not check content policy before loading a script file into a XUL document, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by a "web bug" in an e-mail message, or web script or an advertisement in a web page.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-779-1 Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.514Z

Reserved: 2009-05-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1840

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-06-12T21:30:00.420

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-1840

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-06-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1840 - Bugzilla

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