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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-04

Stored password corruption

Announced
February 7, 2008
Reporter
Justin Dolske
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox
Fixed in
  • Firefox 2.0.0.12

Description

Mozilla developer Justin Dolske discovered that malicious sites, upon a user saving his or her password, could inject newlines into Firefox's password store and corrupt saved passwords for other sites.

Workaround

Do not ask Firefox to save passwords on untrusted sites until a version containing these fixes can be installed.

References