CVE-2005-0230

Publication date 2 May 2005

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Firefox 1.0 does not prevent the user from dragging an executable file to the desktop when it has an image/gif content type but has a dangerous extension such as .bat or .exe, which allows remote attackers to bypass the intended restriction and execute arbitrary commands via malformed GIF files that can still be parsed by the Windows batch file parser, aka “firedragging.”

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mozilla 7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
mozilla-thunderbird 7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.10 edgy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-149-3
    • Ubuntu 4.10 update for Firefox vulnerabilities
    • 28 July 2005

Other references