Bug 803113 – CVE-2012-0458 Mozilla: Escalation of privilege with Javascript: URL as home page (MFSA 2012-16)

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Bug 803113 - (CVE-2012-0458) CVE-2012-0458 Mozilla: Escalation of privilege with Javascript: URL as home page (MFSA 2012-16)

Summary:	CVE-2012-0458 Mozilla: Escalation of privilege with Javascript: URL as home p...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2012-0458

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

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Reported:	2012-03-13 21:48 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2012-03-14 05:08 EDT (History)
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:0387	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security and bug fix update	2012-03-14 07:39:51 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:0388	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: thunderbird security update	2012-03-14 07:19:00 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-03-13 21:48:49 EDT

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that an attacker able to convince a potential victim to set a new home page by dragging a link to the "home" button can set that user's home page to a javascript: URL. Once this is done the attacker's page can cause repeated crashes of the browser, eventually getting the script URL loaded in the privileged about:sessionrestore context.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-16.html

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-03-14 03:20:13 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0388 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0388.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-03-14 03:41:03 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0387 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0387.html

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