Bug 840206 (CVE-2012-1955) - CVE-2012-1955 Mozilla: Spoofing issue with location (MFSA 2012-45)
Summary: CVE-2012-1955 Mozilla: Spoofing issue with location (MFSA 2012-45)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1955
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: 835033
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-14 11:47 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 19:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-07-18 07:30:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1088 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-07-17 23:26:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1089 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-07-17 22:56:27 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-14 11:47:57 UTC
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported an issue with spoofing of the location property. In this issue, calls to history.forward and history.back are used to navigate to a site while displaying the previous site in the addressbar but changing the baseURI to the newer site. This can be used for phishing by allowing the user input form or other data on the newer, attacking, site while appearing to be on the older, displayed site.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-45.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporter of this issue.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 18:57:43 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1089.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 19:28:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1088 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html


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