Bug 145597

Summary: CAN-2005-0141 Link opened in new tab can load a local file
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: mozillaAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version: 3.0CC: security-response-team
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-20 00:57:49 UTC
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Mozilla Security Advisory MSA05-001
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Title:      Link opened in new tab can load a local file
Severity:   Low
Reporter:   Jesse Ruderman

Fixed in:   Firefox 1.0
            Mozilla Suite 1.7.5


Description
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Links with a custom getter and toString method can bypass checks
intended to prevent web content from linking to local files and "chrome"
URIs if the user can be convinced to middle-click (or control-click)
to open it in a new tab.

The browser's "same-origin" policy prevents the attacker's content from
taking advantage of this flaw to read the local file or manipulate
privileged chrome.


Workaround
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Turn off javascript or upgrade to fixed version


References
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249332

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-01-20 00:58:38 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-03-23 19:01:41 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-323.html