Bug 1429784 (CVE-2017-5408)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5408 Mozilla: Cross-origin reading of video captions in violation of CORS (MFSA 2017-06)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-03-07 04:59:58 UTC

Video files loaded video captions cross-origin without checking for the presence of  CORS headers permitting such cross-origin use, leading to potential information disclosure for video captions.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-06/#CVE-2017-5408


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Eric Lawrence of Chrome Security

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-08 15:55:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0461 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-08 16:05:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2017:0459 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0459.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-14 06:04:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0498 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0498.html