6.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2005-0587

Published: 25/03/2005 Updated: 02/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.6 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 231
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Firefox prior to 1.0.1 and Mozilla prior to 1.7.6 allows remote malicious web sites to overwrite arbitrary files by tricking the user into downloading a .LNK (link) file twice, which overwrites the file that was referenced in the first .LNK file.

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Vendor Advisories

USN-149-1 fixed some vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu 504 (Hoary Hedgehog) version of Firefox The version shipped with Ubuntu 410 (Warty Warthog) is also vulnerable to these flaws, so it needs to be upgraded as well Please see ...