Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-05

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-05 Title: Frame scripts calling into untrusted objects bypass security checks Impact: Critical Announced: January 31, 2012 Reporter: mozbugra4 Products: Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 10.0 Thunderbird 10.0 SeaMonkey 2.7 Description...

Frame scripts calling into untrusted objects bypass security checks — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that frame scripts bypass XPConnect security checks when calling untrusted objects. This allows for cross-site scripting XSS attacks through web pages and Firefox extensions. The fix enables the Script Security Manager SSM to force security checks on...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- 'Wrapped' javascript: urls bypass security checks (a81746a1-c2c7-11d9-89f7-02061b08fc24)

A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports : Some security checks intended to prevent script injection were incorrect and could be bypassed by wrapping a javascript: url in the view-source : pseudo-protocol. Michael Krax demonstrated that a variant of his favicon exploit could still execute...