CVE-2006-1942

NameCVE-2006-1942
DescriptionMozilla 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."
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1118, DSA-1120, DSA-1134-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
firefox (PTS)sid125.0.2-1fixed
thunderbird (PTS)buster1:91.12.0-1~deb10u1fixed
buster (security)1:115.10.1-1~deb10u1fixed
bullseye1:115.7.0-1~deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)1:115.10.1-1~deb11u1fixed
bookworm1:115.7.0-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)1:115.10.1-1~deb12u1fixed
sid1:115.10.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
firefoxsource(unstable)1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-1low
mozillasourcesarge2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1DSA-1118
mozillasource(unstable)2:1.7.13-0.3low
mozilla-firefoxsourcesarge1.0.4-2sarge9DSA-1120
mozilla-thunderbirdsourcesarge1.0.2-2.sarge1.0.8aDSA-1134-1
thunderbirdsource(unstable)(not affected)
xulrunnersource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

MFSA-2006-39
- thunderbird <not-affected> (Windows-specific)
- xulrunner <not-affected> (Windows-specific)

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