Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 863616
CVE-2012-3984 CVE-2012-5354 Mozilla: Select element persistance allows for attacks (MFSA 2012-75)
Last modified: 2012-10-10 15:59:34 EDT
Security researcher David Bloom of Cue discovered that <select> elements are always-on-top chromeless windows and that navigation away from a page with an active <select> menu does not remove this window.When another menu is opened programmatically on a new page, the original <select> menu can be retained and arbitrary HTML content within it rendered, allowing an attacker to cover arbitrary portions of the new page through absolute positioning/scrolling, leading to spoofing attacks. Security researcher Jordi Chancel found a variation that would allow for click-jacking attacks was well. In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products. External References: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-75.html Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges David Bloom of Cue as the original reporter.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-5354 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2012-5354 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5354 Assigned: 20121010 Reference: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-75.html Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726264 Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly handle navigation away from a web page that has multiple menus of SELECT elements active, which allows remote attackers to conduct clickjacking attacks via vectors involving an XPI file, the window.open method, and the Geolocation API, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3984. (This is a new one that MITRE assigned)
Statement: Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.