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ITSS-Advisory : Medium : Mozilla : Firefox : Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands

THREAT LEVEL
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Medium

INFORMATION
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Product: Firefox

OVERVIEW:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Firefox which affects the
latest and possibly prior versions.

Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands - Denial of Service
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in the
execution of arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
An exploit for the vulnerability that results in a Denial of Service
(DoS) has been made public.

Access: Remote/Unauthenticated

AFFECTED PLATFORMS
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Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows

ACTION
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Administrators of affected computers are advised to review the
bulletins, test and apply relevant updates.

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1169
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1169

Releases/Firefox 3.0.8
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0.8#Bug_Queries

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