Bug 1342896 – CVE-2016-2829 Mozilla: Incorrect icon displayed on permissions notifications (MFSA 2016-57)

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Bug 1342896 - (CVE-2016-2829) CVE-2016-2829 Mozilla: Incorrect icon displayed on permissions notifications (MFSA 2016-57)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2829 Mozilla: Incorrect icon displayed on permissions notifications ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-2829

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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Reported:	2016-06-06 00:16 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-06-08 23:11 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-06-06 00:16:07 EDT

Security researcher Tim McCormack reported that when a page requests a series of permissions in a short timespan, the resulting permission notifications can show the icon for the wrong permission request. This can lead to user confusion and inadvertent consent given when a user is prompted by web content to give permissions, such as for geolocation or microphone access. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-57.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Tim McCormack

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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