EUVD-2002-0714

Malware in sbrugna...

SUSE CVE-2013-4393

journald in systemd, when the origin of native messages is set to file, allows local users to cause a denial of service logging service blocking via a crafted file descriptor...

Brave Software: Local files reading from the "file://" origin through `brave://`

Summary: Sadly, fix for 390013 works only for web. Loading brave:// from the file:// origin allows reading local files on the device. I said that fix could be insufficient 😈 file:// and brave:// both are local origins. That means it's possible to access brave:// from file:// and vice versa...

Updated firefox and thunderbird packages fix security vulnerabilities

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...

Local Java applets may read contents of local file system — Mozilla

Security researcher Georgi Guninski reported an issue with Java applets where in some circumstances the applet could access files on the local system when loaded using the a file:/// URI and violate file origin policy due to interaction with the codebase parameter. This affects applets running on...

CVE-2002-0722

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to misrepresent the source of a file in the File Download dialogue box to trick users into thinking that the file type is safe to download, aka "File Origin Spoofing."...

CVE-2002-0722

Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 are affected by CVE-2002-0722 due to a UI spoof flaw in the File Download dialogue that allows remote attackers to misrepresent a file’s origin and mislead users into trusting unsafe downloads. The vulnerability has a CVSS-based high impact ...

CVE-2002-0722

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to misrepresent the source of a file in the File Download dialogue box to trick users into thinking that the file type is safe to download, aka "File Origin Spoofing."...