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Mozilla Products Security Bypass Vulnerability - May12 (Mac OS X)
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
2.6
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is installed with Mozilla firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey and is prone to security bypass vulnerability
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error within the handling of XMLHttpRequest and WebSocket while using an IPv6 address can be exploited to bypass the same origin policy.
Affected Software
Affected Software
SeaMonkey version before 2.9 Thunderbird version 5.0 through 11.0 Mozilla Firefox version 4.x through 11.0
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Mozilla Firefox version 12.0 or later, upgrade to SeaMonkey version to 2.9 or later, upgrade to Thunderbird version to 12.0 or later.
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48972/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48932/
- http://securitytracker.com/id/1026971
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-28.html
- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/