Bug 1095074 – CVE-2014-1526 Mozilla: Debugger can bypass XrayWrappers with JavaScript (MFSA 2014-47)

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Bug 1095074 - (CVE-2014-1526) CVE-2014-1526 Mozilla: Debugger can bypass XrayWrappers with JavaScript (MFSA 2014-47)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1526 Mozilla: Debugger can bypass XrayWrappers with JavaScript (MFSA...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1526

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

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Reported:	2014-05-07 01:03 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2014-05-07 01:04 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-05-07 01:03:49 EDT

Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky discovered that the debugger will work with some objects while bypassing XrayWrappers. This could lead to privilege escalation if the victim used the debugger to interact with a malicious page. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-47.html


Acknowledgements:

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


Statement:

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

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