An unpatched vulnerability in handling of JAR: protocol handler URLs has been reported recently.
Information is available at GNUCITIZEN Blog via entry "Web Mayhem: Firefoxs JAR Protocol Issues". Information was publicly disclosed by Petko D Petkov (aka pdp). The issue was originally reported in Bugzilla document #369814 by Jesse Ruderman of Mozilla community, i.e. it's worth of mentioning that Mozilla security group is aware of the vulnerability. Shortly: the vulnerability is due to same origin and XSS issues when opening .JAR packages. The following file formats are known attack vectors: .zip, .doc, and .odt. Information about OpenOffice.org and MS Office 2007 via pdp's post. References: http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/web-mayhem-firefoxs-jar-protocol-issues http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1033 - Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
