Mozilla developer Robert O'Callahan reported a mechanism for timing attacks involving SVG filters and displacements input to feDisplacementMap. This allows displacements to potentially be correlated with values derived from content. This is similar to the previously reported techniques used for SVG timing attacks and could allow for text values to be read across domains, leading to information disclosure. In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts. External Reference: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-28.html Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Robert O'Callahan as the original reporter.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0310 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0310.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2014:0316 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0316.html