File location URL in directory listings not escaped properly

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2008-2808  

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-30

File location URL in directory listings not escaped properly

Announced
July 1, 2008
Reporter
Masahiro Yamada
Impact
Low
Products
Firefox, SeaMonkey
Fixed in
  • Firefox 2.0.0.15
  • SeaMonkey 1.1.10

Description

Mozilla contributor Masahiro Yamada reported that file URLs in directory listings were not being HTML escaped properly when the filenames contained particular characters. This resulted in files from directory listings being opened in unintended ways or files not being able to be opened by the browser altogether.

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