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CVE-2005-1157

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious

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Summary

Firefox before 1.0.3, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.7, and Netscape 7.2 allows remote attackers to replace existing search plugins with malicious ones using sidebar.addSearchEngine and the same filename as the target engine, which may not be displayed in the GUI, which could then be used to execute malicious script, aka "Firesearching 2."

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References 14

redhat.com

secunia.com

mozilla.org

ftp.sco.com

securityfocus.com

mikx.de

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

oval.cisecurity.org

bugzilla.mozilla.org