Bug 730520 – CVE-2011-2981 Mozilla: Privilege escalation using event handlers

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Bug 730520 - (CVE-2011-2981) CVE-2011-2981 Mozilla: Privilege escalation using event handlers

Summary:	CVE-2011-2981 Mozilla: Privilege escalation using event handlers

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2011-2981

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

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Reported:	2011-08-14 00:19 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-03-01 04:44 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-04-12 12:35:57 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:1164	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2011-08-16 14:44:56 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-08-14 00:19:12 EDT

Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a_4 reported a vulnerability in event management code that would permit JavaScript to be run in the wrong context, including that of a different website or potentially in a chrome-privileged context.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-08-16 13:35:40 EDT

This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-16 14:45:11 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1164 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html

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