CVE-2006-1942 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4 Netscape 8.1 8.0.4 and 7.2 and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player or by referencing an \alternate web page.\

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/19698 http://secunia.com/advisories/19988 http://secunia.com/advisories/20063 http://secunia.com/advisories/20376 http://secunia.com/advisories/21176 http://secunia.com/advisories/21183 http://secunia.com/advisories/21324 http://secunia.com/advisories/22066 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016202 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1118 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1120 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1134 http://www.gavinsharp.com/tmp/ImageVuln.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-39.html http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-view-image.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_35_mozilla.html http://www.osvdb.org/24713 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431267/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433138/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433539/30/5070/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435795/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446658/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18228 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2106 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3748 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334341 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25925