Bug 1039427 (CVE-2013-6672) - CVE-2013-6672 Mozilla: Linux clipboard information disclosure though selection paste (MFSA 2013-112)
Summary: CVE-2013-6672 Mozilla: Linux clipboard information disclosure though selectio...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-6672
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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Blocks: 1030244
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Reported: 2013-12-09 04:29 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-09 05:04:54 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:29:51 UTC
Mozilla community member Vincent Lefevre reported that on Linux systems, web content can access data saved to the clipboard when a user attempts to paste a selection with a middle-click instead of pasting the selection content. This allows for possibly private data in the clipboard to be inadvertently disclosed to web content. Windows and OS X systems are not affected by this issue.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-112.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Vincent Lefevre as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6


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