Bug 700635 (CVE-2011-0071)

Summary:	CVE-2011-0071 Mozilla directory traversal via resource protocol (MFSA 2011-16)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, security-response-team, vdanen
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Description Josh Bressers 2011-04-28 21:06:41 UTC

A directory traversal flaw was found in Firefox's resource:// protocol
handler. If a user processed malicious content, it could use this flaw to
gain access to arbitrary files on the user's system.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-04-28 23:54:24 UTC

This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-16.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-04-29 03:10:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0475 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0475.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2011-04-29 03:21:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2011:0471 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0471.html