Bug 1361998 – CVE-2016-5250 Mozilla: Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by the previous page (MFSA 2016-84, MFSA 2016-86)

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Bug 1361998 - (CVE-2016-5250) CVE-2016-5250 Mozilla: Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by the previous page (MFSA 2016-84, MFSA 2016-86)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5250 Mozilla: Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by the p...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5250

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

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Keywords:	Reopened, Security

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Blocks:	1360577 1369653
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Reported:	2016-08-01 02:46 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-09-23 01:35 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1912	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-09-21 07:47:31 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 02:46:38 EDT

Amazon software engineer Catalin Dumitru reported that the URLs of resources loaded after a navigation started (such as in an unload event handler) were leaked to the following page through the Resource Timing API. This leads to potential information disclosure. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-84/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Catalin Dumitru

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-21 03:49:13 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1912 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html

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