Bug 851925 (CVE-2012-3973) - CVE-2012-3973 Mozilla: HTTPMonitor extension allows for remote debugging without explicit activation (MFSA 2012-66)
Summary: CVE-2012-3973 Mozilla: HTTPMonitor extension allows for remote debugging with...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-3973
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 847589
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Reported: 2012-08-27 04:16 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-27 04:19:11 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-27 04:16:22 UTC 
Mozilla security researcher Mark Goodwin discovered an issue with the Firefox developer tools' debugger. If remote debugging is disabled, but the experimental HTTPMonitor extension has been installed and enabled, a remote user can connect to and use the remote debugging service through the port used by HTTPMonitor. A remote-enabled flag has been added to resolve this problem and close the port unless debugging is explicitly enabled. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-66.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla security researcher Mark Goodwin as the original reporter of this flaw.

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This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
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