1395065 – (CVE-2016-5291) CVE-2016-5291 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)

Bug 1395065 (CVE-2016-5291) - CVE-2016-5291 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and saved shortcut file (MFSA 2016-89, MFSA 2016-90)

Summary: CVE-2016-5291 Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using local HTML file and...

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Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2016-5291
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1392803
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-11-15 03:54 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-02-17 03:02 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2016-11-24 05:36:09 UTC

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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2780	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-11-16 13:19:10 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-15 03:54:44 UTC

A same-origin policy bypass with local shortcut files to load arbitrary local content from disk.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-89.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Yuyang Zhou

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-16 08:20:37 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-2016:2780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html

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