CVE-2008-1240 Information

Description

LiveConnect in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.13 and SeaMonkey before 1.1.9 does not properly parse the content origin for jar: URIs before sending them to the Java plugin which allows remote attackers to access arbitrary ports on the local machine. NOTE: this is closely related to CVE-2008-1195.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/29526 http://secunia.com/advisories/29539 http://secunia.com/advisories/29541 http://secunia.com/advisories/29547 http://secunia.com/advisories/29558 http://secunia.com/advisories/29560 http://secunia.com/advisories/29616 http://secunia.com/advisories/29645 http://secunia.com/advisories/30327 http://secunia.com/advisories/30620 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0128 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1532 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1534 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1535 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:080 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-18.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490196/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28448 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-592-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-087A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0998/references http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41458