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firefox: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):firefox CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0414 CVE-2008-0416 CVE-2008-0420 CVE-2008-0594
Created:February 8, 2008 Updated:May 21, 2008
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:
Flaws were discovered in the file upload form control. A malicious website could force arbitrary files from the user's computer to be uploaded without consent. (CVE-2008-0414)

Various flaws were discovered in character encoding handling. If a user were ticked into opening a malicious web page, an attacker could perform cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2008-0416)

Flaws were discovered in the BMP decoder. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted BMP file, an attacker could obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2008-0420)

Emil Ljungdahl and Lars-Olof Moilanen discovered that a web forgery warning dialog wasn't displayed under certain circumstances. A malicious website could exploit this to conduct phishing attacks against the user. (CVE-2008-0594)

Alerts:
Gentoo 200805-18 2008-05-20
Ubuntu USN-592-1 2008-03-26
Debian DSA-1485-2 2008-03-17
Debian DSA-1506-2 2008-03-20
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Ubuntu USN-582-1 2008-02-29
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2060 2008-02-28
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2118 2008-02-28
Debian DSA-1506-1 2008-02-24
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Ubuntu USN-582-2 2008-03-06
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0105-02 2008-02-27
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:048 2007-02-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:008 2008-02-15
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1459 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1669 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1535 2008-02-13
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1435 2008-02-13
Foresight FLEA-2008-0001-1 2008-02-11
rPath rPSA-2008-0051-1 2008-02-08
Debian DSA-1489-1 2008-02-10
Debian DSA-1485-1 2008-02-10
Debian DSA-1484-1 2008-02-10
Ubuntu USN-576-1 2008-02-08

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