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The Mozilla Quality Assurance Community has called for volunteers to help test Release Candidate Builds of Firefox 2.0.0.10, which is expected to be released next week, following the Thanksgiving holiday.

 

Firefox 2.0.0.10 addresses a Java Archive handling bug that was first reported back in February. The vulnerability allows a malicious attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting attack by hiding exploit code in a Java Archive (.jar) file. This is because the .jar protocol is not restricted to .jar files and will open .zip files, which can be malicious.

 

"In simple terms, [this] means that any application which allows upload of .jar/.zip files is potentially vulnerable to a persistent cross-site scripting," said Petko Petkov, founder of security consultancy gnucitizen.org, in blog post earlier this month. "Potential targets for this attack include applications such as Web mail clients, collaboration systems, document sharing systems, almost everything that smells like Web 2.0, etc., etc., etc."

 

The browser update also addresses a redirection bug related to .jar/.zip files.

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