Bug 840207 (CVE-2012-1966) - CVE-2012-1966 Mozilla: XSS and code execution through data: URLs (MFSA 2012-46)
Summary: CVE-2012-1966 Mozilla: XSS and code execution through data: URLs (MFSA 2012-46)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1966
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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Blocks: 835033
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-14 11:53 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 12:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-07-18 07:30:43 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1088 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-07-17 23:26:50 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-14 11:53:07 UTC 
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack through the context menu using a data: URL. In this issue, context menu functionality ("View Image", "Show only this frame", and "View background image") are disallowed in a javascript: URL but allowed in a data: URL, allowing for XSS. This can lead to arbitrary code execution. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-46.html
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-14 11:56:18 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.  Upstream acknowledges moz_bug_r_a4 as the original reporter of this issue.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 19:28:09 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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