Bug 859827 (CVE-2012-3977) - CVE-2012-3977 Mozilla: SPDY information disclosure (MFSA 2012-73)
Summary: CVE-2012-3977 Mozilla: SPDY information disclosure (MFSA 2012-73)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 857737
Alias: CVE-2012-3977
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 855407
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-24 06:44 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-23 13:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firefox 15, seamonkey 2.12
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-09-24 06:51:40 UTC
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Mozilla Foundation 779413 0 None None None 2012-09-24 07:48:34 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-09-24 06:44:50 UTC
Security researchers Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo reported that SPDY's request header compression leads to information leakage, which can allow the extraction of private data such as session cookies, even over an encrypted SSL connection. 

Reference:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779413

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-09-24 06:46:04 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 currently contain Mozilla Firefox version 10.0.x ESR.  Those versions:

- do not request the use of zlib compression in the SSL/TLS protocol
- do not support SPDY protocol

(See bug 857051, comment 4 and bug 857737 for more details).

Statement:

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

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-09-24 06:50:57 UTC
This issue affects the version of Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey as shipped with Fedora-16 and Fedora-17.

This issue was addressed via the following fedora security advisories which updates Firefox and Thunderbird to version 15.0 and seamonkey to version 2.12:

Fedora-16:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14086
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14102

Fedora-17:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14159
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14049

Fedora-18:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-13888
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-13897

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2012-09-24 07:41:27 UTC
Mozilla security advisory:
  http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-73.html

The assignment is a duplicate of the Mitre assigned CVE-2012-4930.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 857737 ***


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