National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-3965

Overview

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that triggers creation of a new tab and then a new window.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769108

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769108

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1548-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1548-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1167

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:1157

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1065

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html