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CVE-2015-0818

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2015-03-21
Bugzilla:
1204363: CVE-2015-0818 Mozilla: Privilege escalation through SVG navigation (MFSA 2015-28)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.4, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via vectors involving SVG hash navigation.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0818 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of thunderbird package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0718 2015-03-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0718 2015-03-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0718 2015-03-24

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird 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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