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Topic :

Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File

SecurityAlert : 4416

CVE : CVE-2008-4582

CWE : CWE-264

SecurityRisk : Low Security Risk Low

(About)

Remote Exploit : Yes

Local Exploit : No

Victim interaction required : No

Exploit Available : No

Credit : Liu Die Yu

Published : 17.10.2008

Affected Software :

mozilla:firefox:3.0.1
mozilla:firefox:3.0.3
mozilla:firefox:3.0.2

Advisory Content :

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

...

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

References :

http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html

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