Bug 911839 (CVE-2013-0773) - CVE-2013-0773 Mozilla: Web content bypass of COW and SOW security wrappers (MFSA 2013-24)
Summary: CVE-2013-0773 Mozilla: Web content bypass of COW and SOW security wrappers (M...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-0773
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 895009
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-16 09:15 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 22:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-02-16 11:17:41 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-02-16 09:15:19 UTC
Mozilla developer Bobby Holley discovered that it was possible to bypass some protections in Chrome Object Wrappers (COW) and Same Origin Wrappers (SOW), making them mutable by web content. This could be to used gain access to chrome privileged functions that are normally web inaccessible, leading to 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/2013/mfsa2013-24.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Bobby Holley as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6


Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.