Bug 1060940 – CVE-2014-1479 Mozilla: Clone protected content with XBL scopes (MFSA 2014-02)

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Bug 1060940 - (CVE-2014-1479) CVE-2014-1479 Mozilla: Clone protected content with XBL scopes (MFSA 2014-02)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1479 Mozilla: Clone protected content with XBL scopes (MFSA 2014-02)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1479

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1058134
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Reported:	2014-02-03 20:38 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2014-02-04 23:54 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-02-04 23:54:18 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0132	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2014-02-04 20:16:27 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0133	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2014-02-04 19:56:11 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-02-03 20:38:15 EST

Security researcher Cody Crews reported a method to bypass System Only Wrappers (SOW) by using XML Binding Language (XBL) content scopes to clone protected XUL elements. This could be used to clone anonymous nodes, making trusted XUL content web accessible.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled in mail, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-02.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Cody Crews as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-04 14:57:44 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0133 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0133.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-04 15:17:41 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0132 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0132.html

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