RE: Two Vulnerabilities in Mozilla may lead to remote compromise
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:
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