bugtraq - Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File

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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:32:09 +0800
From: Liu Die Yu <liudieyu.com@...il.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File

Brief from my Twitter:

  The effect is exposing any location, incl your browsing 
history(about:cache etc)   04:54 AM October 05, 2008  from web

Workaround: Do not use Firefox to open HTM/HTML - not from RAR package, 
not from remote Windows share folder, not from local, etc. 04:36 AM 
October 05, 2008 from web

Some details from my blog:

* Also works on Firefox 3.0.3
* Also works on Firefox 3.0.2

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For Firefox, location is wrong when dot URL shortcut is launched by HTML 
elements. Slightly variant from CVE-2008-2810 which is about command 
line and only fixed in that perspective.

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Complete details and demo are available at 
http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html