Mozilla Seamonkey IPv6 Address Processing Lets Remote Users Bypass Same-Origin Restrictions to Obtain Error Messages
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1026609 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1026609
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2011-3670
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Feb 1 2012
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 2.4
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Seamonkey. A remote user can obtain potentially sensitive information from other domains.
A remote user can create HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will initiate an XMLHttpRequest via a proxy for a specially crafted IPv6 format address to bypass same-origin restrictions and obtain error messages from the proxy.
Gregory Fleischer reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can obtain potentially sensitive information from error messages returned by other domains.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (2.4).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-02.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-02.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error, Input validation 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, 01 Feb 2012 04:18:29 +0000
Subject: Mozilla Firefox / Mozilla Seamonkey / Mozilla Thunderbird
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-02.html
CVE-2011-3670
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