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Mozilla Products "chrome:" URI Handling Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Title : Mozilla Products "chrome:" URI Handling Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0263
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0418
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-01-24

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various Mozilla products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain knowledge of sensitive information [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0263
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413250
http://www.hiredhacker.com/2008/01/19/firefox-chrome-url-handling-directory-traversal/
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-05.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Gerry Eisenhaur.

ChangeLog

2008-01-24 : Initial release
2008-02-08 : Updated Solution

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