5.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2005-2262

Published: 13/07/2005 Updated: 11/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.1 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 515
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Firefox 1.0.3 and 1.0.4, and Netscape 8.0.2, allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code by tricking the user into using the "Set As Wallpaper" (in Firefox) or "Set as Background" (in Netscape) context menu on an image URL that is really a javascript: URL with an eval statement, aka "Firewalling."

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mozilla firefox 1.0.3

mozilla firefox 1.0.4

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An updated firefox package that fixes various security bugs is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team Descripti ...
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 ...

Exploits

// Exploit by Michael Krax <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 401 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Firewalling - Proof-of-Concept</title> <script> function stopload() { // in some cases the javascript url never stops to load // therefore we force a stop after the real image got loaded windowsetTimeo ...