Bug 1361996 (CVE-2016-5268)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5268 Mozilla: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages (MFSA 2016-83)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 06:45:42 UTC

Security researcher musicDespiteEverything reported that some of the special about: URLs used by Firefox to display system information or error messages can incorporate text passed as parmeters. These could be used in spoofing attacks. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-83.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: musicDespiteEverything

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.