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Secunia Advisory SA12708

Mozilla Firefox Download Directory File Deletion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA12708
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Release Date 2004-10-04
Last Update 2004-10-06
   
Popularity 31,412 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Manipulation of data
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Mozilla Firefox 0.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

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 all content 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.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Alex Vincent

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#firefox0.10.1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259708

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