Bug 730522 (CVE-2011-2984) - CVE-2011-2984 Mozilla: Privilege escalation dropping a tab element in content area
Summary: CVE-2011-2984 Mozilla: Privilege escalation dropping a tab element in content...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-2984
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-14 04:27 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-04-12 16:21:06 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1164 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2011-08-16 18:44:56 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-08-14 04:27:09 UTC 
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that web content could receive chrome privileges if it registered for drop events and a browser tab element was dropped into the content area.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-08-16 17:37:47 UTC 
This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-16 18:45:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1164 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html
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