Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.17 and 3.x before 3.0.2, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.17, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to bypass "restrictions imposed on local HTML files," and obtain sensitive information and prompt users to write this information into a file, via directory traversal sequences in a resource: URI.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
rpm rhel5	xulrunner	<0:1.9.0.2-5.el5	0:1.9.0.2-5.el5
rpm rhel5	yelp	<0:2.16.0-21.el5	0:2.16.0-21.el5
rpm rhel5	devhelp	<0:0.12-19.el5	0:0.12-19.el5
rpm rhel5	firefox	<0:3.0.2-3.el5	0:3.0.2-3.el5
rpm rhel5	nss	<0:3.12.1.1-1.el5	0:3.12.1.1-1.el5
rpm rhel5	thunderbird	<0:2.0.0.17-1.el5	0:2.0.0.17-1.el5

Aliases

1. CVE-2008-40682. NVD-2008-40683. OSV-2008-4068

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