Bug 1152683 – CVE-2014-1583 Mozilla: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (MFSA 2014-82)

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Bug 1152683 - (CVE-2014-1583) CVE-2014-1583 Mozilla: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (MFSA 2014-82)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1583 Mozilla: Accessing cross-origin objects via the Alarms API (MFS...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1583

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

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Reported:	2014-10-14 13:06 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-06-10 17:23 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:1635	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2014-10-15 02:39:52 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-10-14 13:06:58 EDT

Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky reported that a malicious app could use the AlarmAPI to read the values of cross-origin references, such as an iframe's location object, as part of an alarm's JSON data. This allows a malicious app to bypass same-origin policy. 

Note: Users are only at risk for this issue if a web app has been installed.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-82.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 22:40:56 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2014:1635 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html

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