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Bug 155358

Summary: firefox 1.0.2 is vulnerable, see http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Leonid Kanter <leon>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Description Leonid Kanter 2005-04-19 15:02:56 UTC
Description of problem:

firefox 1.0.2 is vulnerable to following exploit:
http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-1.0.2-1.4.1

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://www.mikx.de/firelinking/#

  
Actual results:

file ~/booom.txt will be created

Expected results:

no file should be created

Additional info:

upgrade to 1.0.3 fixes this problem

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-21 13:56:21 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155114 ***