Directory traversal vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8, when using "flat" addons, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary Javascript, image, and stylesheet files via the chrome: URI scheme, as demonstrated by stealing session information from sessionstore.js.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1484-1 New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1485-1 New icedove packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1485-2 New icedove packages fix regression
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1489-1 New iceweasel packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1506-1 New iceape packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1506-2 New iceape packages fix regression
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-576-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-582-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
http://browser.netscape.com/releasenotes/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28622/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28754 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28766 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28808 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28815 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28818 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28839 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28864 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28865 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28877 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28879 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28924 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28939 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28958 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29049 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29086 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29098 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29164 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29167 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29211 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29567 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30327 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30620 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31043 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.445399 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239546-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/6251b18e050302ebe7fe74294b55c818.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0051 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0093 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.hiredhacker.com/2008/01/19/firefox-chrome-url-handling-directory-traversal/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/309608 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2008/mfsa2008-05.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0103.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0104.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0105.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487826/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488002/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488971/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27406 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019329 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-582-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-582-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0263 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0453/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0454/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0627/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1793/references cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2091/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1995 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0418 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10705 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-0418 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00274.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00309.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00381.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00905.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00946.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:46:54.336Z

Reserved: 2008-01-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-0418

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-02-08T22:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-0418

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-02-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-0418 - Bugzilla

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