Bug 479057 - /etc/mailcap unsafe xdg-open usage
Summary: /etc/mailcap unsafe xdg-open usage
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 479010
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mailcap
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-01-06 20:04 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2009-01-06 20:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-06 20:27:52 UTC
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Description Josh Bressers 2009-01-06 20:04:18 UTC 
The following issue was reported to us from Manuel Reimer:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19377

The basic summary, is that xdg-open detects the file mime type, and Firefox gets its mime type from the server.  That means that a malicious site could trick a user into thinking they are downloading a PDF file, but could be treated differently by xdg-open.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2009-01-06 20:27:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 479010 ***
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