Bug 1265775 (CVE-2015-4516) - CVE-2015-4516 Mozilla: JavaScript immutable property enforcement can be bypassed (MFSA 2015-109)
Summary: CVE-2015-4516 Mozilla: JavaScript immutable property enforcement can be bypas...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-4516
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: 1261782
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Reported: 2015-09-23 17:47 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-24 16:31:33 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-23 17:47:20 UTC
Mozilla developer Jeff Walden reported that in Gecko's implementation of
ECMAScript 5 API's enforces non-configurable properties with logic specific to
each API.  Scripts that do not go through these APIs can bypass these
protections and make changes to the immutable properties in violation of
security protections. This could potentially allow for web content to run in a
privileged context leading to arbitrary code execution.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-109/

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 12:37:13 UTC
Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 16:31:33 UTC
This issue was fixed in Firefox version 41.


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