Bug 761550 – CVE-2011-4688 firefox: Does not prevent capture of data about the times of Same Origin Policy violations during IFRAME loading

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Bug 761550 - (CVE-2011-4688) CVE-2011-4688 firefox: Does not prevent capture of data about the times of Same Origin Policy violations during IFRAME loading

Summary:	CVE-2011-4688 firefox: Does not prevent capture of data about the times of Sa...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2011-4688

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

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Reported:	2011-12-08 10:25 EST by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2015-08-22 11:48 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-08 10:25:42 EST

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-4688 to the following vulnerability:

Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1 and earlier does not prevent capture of data about the times of Same Origin Policy violations during IFRAME loading attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine whether a document exists in the browser cache via crafted JavaScript code.

References:
[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cachetime/
[2] http://secunia.com/advisories/47090
[3] http://sip.cs.princeton.edu/pub/webtiming.pdf

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