full-disclosure - Is Mozilla's "patch" enough?

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Message-ID: <200407121601.53597.thomas@kaschwig.net>
From: thomas at kaschwig.net (Thomas Kaschwig)
Subject: Is Mozilla's "patch" enough?

Aviv Raff wrote:

> If an attacker has a file writing access to the user's default profile
> directory, or somehow manages to update/create the file user.js (or
> even worse - mozilla.cfg) he can override the patch's configuration
> change, and enable the shell protocol handler again.

Nobody should have write access to your user profile. If someone is able 
to modify your user.js file, (s)he can enable some worse options, e.g. 
the protocol handler for `hcp' or `vbscript', but this is not a security 
flaw of mozilla...

Thomas
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