Bug 761550 (CVE-2011-4688) - CVE-2011-4688 firefox: Does not prevent capture of data about the times of Same Origin Policy violations during IFRAME loading
Summary: CVE-2011-4688 firefox: Does not prevent capture of data about the times of Sa...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2011-4688
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-08 15:25 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 15:48:10 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-08 15:25:42 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-4688 to the following vulnerability:

Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1 and earlier does not prevent capture of data about the times of Same Origin Policy violations during IFRAME loading attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to determine whether a document exists in the browser cache via crafted JavaScript code.

References:
[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cachetime/
[2] http://secunia.com/advisories/47090
[3] http://sip.cs.princeton.edu/pub/webtiming.pdf
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