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Unscored CVE-2012-1956 EUVD-2012-1965GHSA-8449-cw6v-fqcw

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 do not prevent use of the Object.defineProperty method to s…

Published Aug 29, 2012 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 do not prevent use of the Object.defineProperty method to shadow the location object (aka window.location), which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via vectors involving a plugin.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 6 firefox +3 10.0.8-1.el6_3 RHSA-2012:1351, RHSA-2012:1350
RHEL 5 firefox +3 10.0.8-1.el5_8 RHSA-2012:1351, RHSA-2012:1350
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Rhel Productivity 5 thunderbird 10.0.8-1.el5_8 RHSA-2012:1351

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaFirefox 50.1.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaThunderbird 45.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed firefox-esr 128.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Advisories 5

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