Bug 1291600 (CVE-2015-7214) - CVE-2015-7214 Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-source: URIs (MFSA 2015-149)
Summary: CVE-2015-7214 Mozilla: Cross-site reading attack through data: and view-sourc...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7214
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: 1290704
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-15 09:02 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-01-05 19:46:06 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2657 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2015-12-16 23:20:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0001 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2016-01-05 20:33:59 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 09:02:36 UTC 
Security researcher Tsubasa Iinuma reported a mechanism to violate same-origin policy to content using data: and view-soure: URIs to confuse protections and bypass restrictions. This resulted in the ability to read data from cross-site URLs and local files. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-149.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tsubasa Iinuma as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-16 18:23:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:2657 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2657.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-05 15:35:23 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:0001 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0001.html
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