24713 : Mozilla Firefox IMG Element Crafted file:// URL Arbitrary Local File Access
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May 05, 2006

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May 05, 2006

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c00771742,HPSBUX02153,SSRT061181

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2 and possibly other versions before 1.5.0.4, Netscape 8.1, 8.0.4, and 7.2, and K-Meleon 0.9.13 allows user-assisted remote attackers to open local files via a web page with an IMG element containing a SRC attribute with a non-image file:// URL, then tricking the user into selecting View Image for the broken image, as demonstrated using a .wma file to launch Windows Media Player, or by referencing an "alternate web page."

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