Bug 1301823 (CVE-2016-1937) - CVE-2016-1937 Mozilla: Missing delay following user click events in protocol handler dialog (MFSA 2016-06)
Summary: CVE-2016-1937 Mozilla: Missing delay following user click events in protocol ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-1937
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1300522
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Reported: 2016-01-26 04:16 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-01-27 04:50:52 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-01-26 04:16:03 UTC
Security researcher window reported an issue where the protocol handler dialog appears, double click events are treated as two single click events. This was caused by the lack of a delay following the initial focus in the file download dialog. This could cause a second dialog to be sent the second click, leading to unintentional user initiated actions, such as the running of downloaded software from a maliciously positioned prompt. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-06.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges window 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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