Mozilla Firefox Bug in Processing Adobe Flash Contents Lets Remote Users Bypass Cross-Domain Restrictions
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1022093 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1022093
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2009-1307
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Apr 22 2009
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Impact:
Disclosure of user information, Host/resource access via network, Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.x prior to 3.0.9
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote user can conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
A remote user can create specially crafted Adobe Flash content that, when loaded via the 'view-source:' scheme, will bypass cross-domain restrictions and will run with the privileges provided to local content.
The Flash content can connect to arbitrary resources via HTTP and conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
The Flash content can read and write Local Shared Objects on the target system.
Mozilla SeaMonkey is affected.
Mozilla Thunderbird may be affected if plugins are enabled in mail (not the default setting).
Gregory Fleischer reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can conduct cross-domain restrictions to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
A remote user can read and write shared objects on the target system.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (3.0.9).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-17.html
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Vendor URL: www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-17.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:04:19 -0400
Subject: Mozilla Firefox
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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-17.html
CVE-2009-1307
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