Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-02

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-02 Title: Overly permissive IPv6 literal syntax Impact: Low Announced: January 31, 2012 Reporter: Gregory Fleischer Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 7.0 Firefox 3.6.26 Thunderbird 7.0 Thunderbird 3.1.18 SeaMonkey 2.4 Description...

Debian DSA-2400-1 : iceweasel - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox. The included XULRunner library provides rendering services for several other applications included in Debian. - CVE-2011-3670 Gregory Fleischer discovered that IPv6 URLs were incorrectly parsed, resulting i...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-79

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-79 Title: Java security bypass from LiveConnect loaded via data: URL meta refresh Impact: Critical Announced: December 9, 2010 Reporter: Gregory Fleischer Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.6.13 Firefox 3.5.16 SeaMonkey 2.0.11 Description...

Arbitrary domain cookie access by local file: resources — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that local resources loaded via the file: protocol can access any domain's cookies which have been saved on a user's machine. Fleischer demonstrated that a local document's domain was being calculated incorrectly from its URL. If a victim could be...

Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported that when an Adobe Flash file is loaded via the view-source: scheme, the Flash plugin misinterprets the origin of the content as localhost, leading to two specific vulnerabilities:...

Java socket connection to any local port via LiveConnect — Mozilla

Security researcher Gregory Fleischer demonstrated that web content fetched via the jar: protocol can use Java via LiveConnect to open socket connections to arbitrary ports on the user's machine "localhost". The issue is caused by improper parsing of the content origin passed from the browser to...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : epiphany (epiphany-4870)

This update brings the Mozilla XUL runner engine to security update version 1.8.1.10 MFSA 2007-37 / CVE-2007-5947: The jar protocol handler in Mozilla Firefox retrieves the inner URL regardless of its MIME type, and considers HTML documents within a jar archive to have the same origin as the inne...