bugtraq - RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise

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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:50:06 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@...o.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise


On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jelmer wrote:

> I was under the impression that mozilla firefox disallowed access to local
> files (not sure about mozilla but I assume it's the same)
> 
> When I link to a local file from the internet, I get a
> Security Error: Content at http:///.... May not load or link to 
> File:/// ...

This behaviour depends on security.checkloaduri. True, the default value,
disallows links from http: et al to file:

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."