Mozilla Firefox Same Origin Violation And Local File Access (2015-78; CVE-2015-4495)

Same origin violation and local file access vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox. The vulnerability is due to the mechanism that enforces JavaScript context separation and Firefox's PDF Viewer. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read and obtain...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2015:1581 centos7

Check the version of firefox SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882239";...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2015:1581 centos5

Check the version of firefox SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882241";...

firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1581 Updated firefox packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

Design/Logic Flaw

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

Mozilla Firefox PDF Viewer Same-Origin Bypass Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox is an open source WEB browser. Mozilla Firefox PDF Viewer suffers from a security vulnerability that allows remote attackers to construct malicious WEB pages and trick users into parsing them, bypassing the same-origin policy, injecting arbitrary JavaScript into PDF Viewer, and...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2707-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

CVE-2015-4495

CVE-2015-4495 affects Mozilla Firefox's built-in PDF viewer. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read arbitrary files or gain privileges via crafted JavaScript and a native setter, in Firefox versions before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Fi...

CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

CVE-2015-4495

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and read arbitrary files or gain privileges, via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter, as exploited in the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

Updated firefox packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

Mozilla: Same origin violation and local file stealing via PDF reader (MFSA 2015-78)

A flaw was discovered in Mozilla Firefox that could be used to violate the same-origin policy and inject web script into a non-privileged part of the built-in PDF file viewer PDF.js. An attacker could create a malicious web page that, when viewed by a victim, could steal arbitrary files including...

Updated firefox package fixes CVE-2015-4495

Updated firefox packages fix security vulnerability: Security researcher Cody Crews reported on a way to violate the same origin policy and inject script into a non-privileged part of the built-in PDF Viewer in Firefox. This would allow an attacker to read and steal sensitive local files on the...

USN-2707-1 firefox vulnerability

Cody Crews discovered a way to violate the same-origin policy to inject script in to a non-privileged part of the PDF viewer. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could exploit this to read sensitive information from local files. CVE-2015-4495...

Warning! Update Mozilla Firefox to Patch Critical File Stealing Vulnerability

Earlier this week, Mozilla Security researcher Cody Crews discovered a malicious advertisement on a Russian news site that steals local files from a system and upload them to a Ukrainian server without the user ever knowing. The malicious advertisement was exploiting a serious vulnerability in...