Bug 851925 – CVE-2012-3973 Mozilla: HTTPMonitor extension allows for remote debugging without explicit activation (MFSA 2012-66)

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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...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2012-3973

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

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Reported:	2012-08-27 00:16 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2012-08-28 23:06 EDT (History)
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-27 00:16:22 EDT

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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