National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0458

Overview

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 do not properly restrict setting the home page through the dragging of a URL to the home button, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a javascript: URL that is later interpreted in the about:sessionrestore context.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723808

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723808

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719994

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719994

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718203

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718203

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1401-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1401-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1400-5

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-5

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1400-4

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-4

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1400-3

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-3

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1400-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1400-2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-16.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-16.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2433

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2433

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48920

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48920

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48823

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48823

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48629

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48629

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48624

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48624

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48561

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48561

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48553

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48553

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48513

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48513

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48496

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48496

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48495

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48495

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15122

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15122

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0417

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html