Mozilla Firefox RDFXMLDataSource Bug Lets Remote Users Obtain Information from Arbitrary Domains
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1021797 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1021797
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2009-0776
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Mar 5 2009
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Impact:
Disclosure of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 3.0.7
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can obtain potentially sensitive information.
A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will invoke nsIRDFService and issue a cross-domain redirect to obtain arbitrary XML data from another domain on the target user's browser.
Mozilla SeaMonkey is also affected.
Georgi Guninski reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can obtain potentially sensitive information from arbitrary domains.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fixed version (3.0.7).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-09.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-09.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:57:19 -0500
Subject: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-09.html
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CVE-2009-0776
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