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Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise Jul 13 2004 10:16AM
Mind Warper (mindwarper linuxmail org) (3 replies)

RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise Jul 13 2004 07:33PM
Darren Pilgrim (dmp bitfreak org)

Re: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise Jul 13 2004 05:01PM
Daniel Veditz (dveditz cruzio com)

RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise Jul 13 2004 04:49PM
Jelmer (jkuperus planet nl) (1 replies)

RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise Jul 13 2004 11:50PM
Pavel Kankovsky (peak argo troja mff cuni cz)

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jelmer wrote:

> I was under the impression that mozilla firefox disallowed access to local
> files (not sure about mozilla but I assume it's the same)
>
> When I link to a local file from the internet, I get a
> Security Error: Content at http:///.... May not load or link to
> File:/// ...

This behaviour depends on security.checkloaduri. True, the default value,
disallows links from http: et al to file:

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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