Mozilla Firefox Lets Remote Users Prevent the Browser From Opening Local Plain Text Files in Certain Cases
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1019340
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1019340
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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-0592
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Feb 8 2008
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Impact: Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Exploit Included: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Advisory: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory
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Version(s): prior to 2.0.0.12
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can prevent the browser from opening local text files in certain cases.
A remote user can create a file with Content-Disposition: attachment and Content-Type: plain/text that, when saved by the target
user to the target user's system, will prevent the browser from opening local files with '.txt' extensions.
oo.rio.oo reported
this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user can create a file that, when saved locally by the target user, will prevent the browser from opening local text files.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fixed version (2.0.0.12).
The Mozilla advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: State error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:13:55 -0500
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-09.html
CVE-2008-0592
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