Bug 1361996 (CVE-2016-5268) - CVE-2016-5268 Mozilla: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal error pages (MFSA 2016-83)
Summary: CVE-2016-5268 Mozilla: Spoofing attack through text injection into internal e...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-5268
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-08-01 06:45 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 19:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-03 04:57:40 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 06:45:42 UTC 
Security researcher musicDespiteEverything reported that some of the special about: URLs used by Firefox to display system information or error messages can incorporate text passed as parmeters. These could be used in spoofing attacks. 


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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-83.html


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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: musicDespiteEverything

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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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