[tbb-bugs] #20123 [Applications/Tor Browser]: consider blocking remote jar files at Low Security

Mon Sep 19 18:10:10 UTC 2016

#20123: consider blocking remote jar files at Low Security
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 Reporter:  arthuredelstein                |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                         |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff52-esr, tbb-security-slider  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by bugzilla):

 Replying to [ticket:20123 arthuredelstein]:
 > Mozilla recently blocked remote jar files by default:
 And you should.
 > Then they had to re-enable the remote jar files again in the release,
 because users of IBM iNotes (some sort of webmail thing) ran into an
 incompatibility.
 IBM fixed it.
 > In any case, Mozilla's intention is to block by default again in the
 future. So when that happens, if not sooner, we should ensure that our
 security slider is not re-enabling remote jar files at Low Security.
 Last time such operation was called "exempt" (#18557).

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