Bugtraq: Firefox Privacy Broken If Used to Open Web Page File

[Liu Die Yu <liudieyu.com () gmail com>]

Brief from my Twitter:

 The effect is exposing any location, incl your browsing 
history(about:cache etc)   04:54 AM October 05, 2008  from web
   
Workaround: Do not use Firefox to open HTM/HTML - not from RAR package, 
not from remote Windows share folder, not from local, etc. 04:36 AM 
October 05, 2008 from web
Some details from my blog:

* Also works on Firefox 3.0.3
* Also works on Firefox 3.0.2

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For Firefox, location is wrong when dot URL shortcut is launched by HTML 
elements. Slightly variant from CVE-2008-2810 which is about command 
line and only fixed in that perspective.
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Complete details and demo are available at 
http://liudieyu0.blog124.fc2.com/blog-entry-6.html