Mozilla security issue: Windows shell: protocol handler
10
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
07/07/2004
07/25/2018
01/06/2005
07/22/2012
Description
The system is running a vulnerable version of the Mozilla browser. shell: URLs were passed to windows for handling which could result in launching programs. This could theoretically be combined with an unpatched exploit in some default windows filetype handler to run arbitrary code
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-latest
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