Bug 1180977 – CVE-2014-8636 Mozilla: XrayWrapper bypass through DOM objects (MFSA 2015-09)

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Bug 1180977 - (CVE-2014-8636) CVE-2014-8636 Mozilla: XrayWrapper bypass through DOM objects (MFSA 2015-09)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8636 Mozilla: XrayWrapper bypass through DOM objects (MFSA 2015-09)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-8636

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

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Blocks:	1179163
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Reported:	2015-01-12 00:19 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-03-03 10:04 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-01-12 00:47:47 EST
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-01-12 00:19:26 EST

Mozilla developer Bobby Holley reported that Document Object Model (DOM) objects with some specific properties can bypass XrayWrappers. This can allow web content to access privileged code by compromising their XrayWrappers. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-09.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

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