Bug 1039421 (CVE-2013-5614) - CVE-2013-5614 Mozilla: Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested object elements (MFSA 2013-107)
Summary: CVE-2013-5614 Mozilla: Sandbox restrictions not applied to nested object elem...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-5614
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1030244
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-09 04:16 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-12 04:15:46 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1812 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2013-12-11 10:27:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1823 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2013-12-11 22:26:18 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:16:53 UTC 
Mozilla security developer Daniel Veditz discovered that <iframe sandbox> restrictions are not applied to an <object> element contained within a sandboxed iframe. This could allow content hosted within a sandboxed iframe to use <object> element to bypass the sandbox restrictions that should be applied.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-107.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Daniel Veditz as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 05:28:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1812 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 17:27:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1823 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1823.html
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