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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox "chrome:" Directory Traversal Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28622

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28622/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/12434/

DESCRIPTION:
Gerry Eisenhaur has discovered a security issue in Mozilla Firefox,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error within the handling of
"chrome:" URIs. This can be exploited to include arbitrary scripts
from local resources via directory traversal attacks.

Successful exploitation requires that an extension which doesn't
store it's contents inside a .jar file is installed.

The security issue is confirmed in version 2.0.0.11 for Windows.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not open untrusted web pages.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Gerry Eisenhaur

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hiredhacker.com/2008/01/19/firefox-chrome-url-handling-directory-traversal/

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