----- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:24 AM TITLE: Mozilla Firefox Download Directory File Deletion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA12708 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/12708/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Manipulation of data WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: Mozilla Firefox 0.x http://secunia.com/product/3256/ DESCRIPTION: Alex Vincent has reported a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to delete files on a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when downloading files and can be exploited to delete files in the download directory (by default the user's desktop on Windows and the user's $HOME directory on Linux). Successful exploitation requires that a user is tricked into clicking the "Save" button to download a file. SOLUTION: Update to version 0.10.1. http://www.mozilla.org/ PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Alex Vincent ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox0.10.1 ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
