Bug 827831 (CVE-2012-1945)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1945 Mozilla: Information disclosure though Windows file shares and shortcut files (MFSA 2012-37)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, security-response-team
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-06-03 08:39:47 UTC

Security researcher Paul Stone reported an attack where an HTML page hosted on a Windows share and then loaded could then load Windows shortcut files (.lnk) in the same share. These shortcut files could then link to arbitrary locations on the local file system of the individual loading the HTML page. That page could show the contents of these linked files or directories from the local file system in an iframe, causing information disclosure.

This issue could potentially affect Linux machines with samba shares enabled.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-37.html

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2012-06-05 03:28:11 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges security researcher Paul Stone as the original
reporter.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-05 20:59:31 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0710 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-06 23:51:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0715 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html