Bug 815024 (CVE-2012-0474) - CVE-2012-0474 Mozilla: Page load short-circuit can lead to XSS (MFSA 2012-27)
Summary: CVE-2012-0474 Mozilla: Page load short-circuit can lead to XSS (MFSA 2012-27)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-0474
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: Embargoed812268
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Reported: 2012-04-22 06:54 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 12:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-24 21:02:26 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0515 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-04-24 23:55:38 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0516 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-04-24 23:44:08 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-22 06:54:44 UTC 
Security researchers Jordi Chancel and Eddy Bordi reported that they could short-circuit page loads to show the address of a different site than what is loaded in the window in the addressbar. Security researcher Chris McGowen independently reported the same flaw, and further demonstrated that this could lead to loading scripts from the attacker's site, leaving users vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-27.html
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-04-24 17:56:47 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.  Upstream acknowledges Jordi Chancel and Eddy Bordi, and Chris McGowen as the original reporters.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:46:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0516 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0516.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:58:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0515 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0515.html
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