Bug 1315574 – CVE-2016-1958 Mozilla: Displayed page address can be overridden (MFSA 2016-21)

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Bug 1315574 - (CVE-2016-1958) CVE-2016-1958 Mozilla: Displayed page address can be overridden (MFSA 2016-21)

Summary:	CVE-2016-1958 Mozilla: Displayed page address can be overridden (MFSA 2016-21)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-1958

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

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1313724
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Reported:	2016-03-08 01:09 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-03-28 01:26 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0373	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-03-09 05:11:19 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 01:09:10 EST

Security researcher Abdulrahman Alqabandi reported an issue where an attacker can load an arbitrary web page but the addressbar's displayed URL will be blank or filled with page defined content. This can be used to obfuscate which page is currently loaded and allows for an attacker to spoof an existing page without the malicious page's address being displayed correctly. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-21.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Abdulrahman Alqabandi

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 00:12:15 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-2016:0373 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0373.html

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