Bug 1291600 – CVE-2015-7214 Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-source: URIs (MFSA 2015-149)

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Bug 1291600 - (CVE-2015-7214) CVE-2015-7214 Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-source: URIs (MFSA 2015-149)

Summary:	CVE-2015-7214 Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-sourc...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-7214

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:	1290704
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Reported:	2015-12-15 04:02 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-01-05 14:46 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-01-05 14:46:06 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:2657	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2015-12-16 18:20:40 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0001	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-01-05 15:33:59 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 04:02:36 EST

Security researcher Tsubasa Iinuma reported a mechanism to violate same-origin policy to content using data: and view-soure: URIs to confuse protections and bypass restrictions. This resulted in the ability to read data from cross-site URLs and local files. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-149.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-16 13:23:56 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:2657 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2657.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-05 10:35:23 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0001 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0001.html

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