Bug 863623 (CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-4184) - CVE-2012-3993 CVE-2012-4184 Mozilla: Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) does not disallow acces to privileged functions or properties (MFSA 2012-83)
Summary: CVE-2012-3993 CVE-2012-4184 Mozilla: Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) does not dis...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3993, CVE-2012-4184
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 852611
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-06 05:19 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-08-18 09:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-10-10 09:07:32 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1350 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security and bug fix update 2012-10-10 02:51:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1351 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-10-10 02:31:05 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-06 05:19:00 UTC
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that when InstallTrigger fails, it throws an error wrapped in a Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) that fails to specify exposed properties. These can then be added to the resulting object by an attacker, allowing access to chrome privileged functions through script.

While investigating this issue, Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 found that COW did not disallow accessing of properties from a standard prototype in some situations, even when the original issue had been fixed.

These issues could allow for a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack or arbitrary code execution.

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 Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-83.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-09 22:33:26 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1351 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-09 22:54:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1350 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1350.html


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