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Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 can read local files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kpm)
Wed Nov 25 19:46:32 1998

Date: 	Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:26:42 +0100
Reply-To: kpm <kpm@KPM.DE>
From: kpm <kpm@KPM.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG

-----Original Message-----
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
Date: Montag, 23. November 1998 21:00
Subject: Netscape Communicator 4.5 can read local files


>There is a bug in Netscape Communicator 4.5 for Windows 95 and 4.05 for
>WinNT 4.0
>(probably others) which allows reading files from the user's computer.
>It is not necessary the file name to be known, because directories may
>be browsed.


It seems, that my preferred NS3.04 is safe against that

peter

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