CVE-2013-1688

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-06-25
Bugzilla:
977601: CVE-2013-1688 Mozilla: Arbitrary code execution within Profiler (MFSA 2013-52)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The Profiler implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 parses untrusted data during UI rendering, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code via a crafted web site.

Find out more about CVE-2013-1688 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird 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 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
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 Mariusz Mlynski as the original reporter.

External References

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