CVE-2007-4841 Information

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.8 Thunderbird before 2.0.0.8 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a (1) mailto (2) nntp (3) news or (4) snews URI with invalid \ encoding related to improper file type handling on Windows XP with Internet Explorer 7 installed a variant of CVE-2007-3845.

Reference

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579 http://secunia.com/advisories/27311 http://secunia.com/advisories/27315 http://secunia.com/advisories/27360 http://secunia.com/advisories/27414 http://secunia.com/advisories/27744 http://secunia.com/advisories/28363 http://secunia.com/advisories/28398 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.471007 http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:202 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-36.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25543 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3544 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0083 http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/09/01/firefox-file-handling-woes/