National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-5074

Overview

The layout engine in Mozilla Firefox before 4.0, Thunderbird before 3.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.1 executes different code for visited and unvisited links during the processing of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a timing attack.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14456

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14456

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak/

Hyperlink:http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css-history-leak/

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14456

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14456