CVE-2012-3975

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-08-28
Bugzilla:
851929: CVE-2012-3975 Mozilla: DOMParser loads linked resources in extensions when parsing text/html (MFSA 2012-68)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The DOMParser component in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 loads subresources during parsing of text/html data within an extension, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by providing crafted data to privileged extension code.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3975 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Mozilla security researcher vsemozhetbyt as the original reporter of this flaw.

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