Bug 1396537 (CVE-2016-9076) - CVE-2016-9076 firefox: select dropdown menu can be used for URL bar spoofing on e10s
Summary: CVE-2016-9076 firefox: select dropdown menu can be used for URL bar spoofing ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-9076
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1392803
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Reported: 2016-11-18 15:11 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-25 19:43 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: firefox 50
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Last Closed: 2016-11-24 05:24:28 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-11-18 15:11:24 UTC 
An issue where a <select> dropdown menu can be used to cover location bar content, resulting in potential spoofing attacks. This attack requires e10s to be enabled in order to function.

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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-89/#CVE-2016-9076
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-11-18 15:20:07 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Mats Palmgren
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-24 05:24:28 UTC 
Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
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