Bug 1416279 (CVE-2017-5390) - CVE-2017-5390 Mozilla: Insecure communication methods in Developer Tools JSON viewer (MFSA 2017-02)
Summary: CVE-2017-5390 Mozilla: Insecure communication methods in Developer Tools JSON...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5390
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1414732
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-25 06:40 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 20:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-02 06:30:43 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0190 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-02-21 17:18:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0238 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-02-02 09:38:23 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-25 06:40:54 UTC 
The JSON viewer in the Developer Tools uses insecure methods to create a communication channel for copying and viewing JSON or HTTP headers data, allowing for potential privilege escalation.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5390

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jerri Rice
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-25 09:33:16 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-2017:0190 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 04:39:46 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-2017:0238 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.html
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