CVE-2011-2999
published 2011-09-29CVE-2011-2999: Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.23 and 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.3 do not properly handle "location" as the name of a frame…
PriorityP415medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
1.09%
62.1th percentile
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.23 and 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.3 do not properly handle "location" as the name of a frame, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0170.
Affected
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CVSS provenance
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu3.5LOW
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Ubuntu
Mozvoikko, ubufox, webfav update
vendor_ubuntu·2011-10-04·CVSS 3.5
[LOW] Mozvoikko, ubufox, webfav update
Title: Mozvoikko, ubufox, webfav update
Summary: This update provides packages compatible with Firefox 7.
USN-1222-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides updated
packages for use with Firefox 7.
Original advisory details:
Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Andrew McCreight,
Andreas Gal, Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Jason Orendorff, Jesse Ruderman, and
Marcia Knous discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser
rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2995,
CVE-2011-2997)
Boris Zbarsky discovered that a frame named "location" could shadow the
window.location object unless a script in a page grabbed a reference to the
true object before the
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2011-09-29·CVSS 3.5
CVE-2011-3005 [LOW] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or possibly run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Andrew McCreight,
Andreas Gal, Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Jason Orendorff, Jesse Ruderman, and
Marcia Knous discovered multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser
rendering engine. An attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2995,
CVE-2011-2997)
Boris Zbarsky discovered that a frame named "location" could shadow the
window.location object unless a script in a page grabbed a reference to the
true object before the frame was created. This is in violation of the Same
Origin Policy. A malicious website could possi
Ubuntu
Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2011-09-28·CVSS 3.5
CVE-2011-2995 [LOW] Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities
Summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in Firefox and Xulrunner.
Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, and Josh Aas discovered
multiple memory vulnerabilities in the browser rendering engine. An
attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2011-2995, CVE-2011-2996)
Boris Zbarsky discovered that a frame named "location" could shadow the
window.location object unless a script in a page grabbed a reference to the
true object before the frame was created. This is in violation of the Same
Origin Policy. A malicious website could possibly use this to access
another website or the local file system. (CVE-2011-2999)
Mark Kaplan discovered an integer underflow in
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2011-09-28·CVSS 3.5
CVE-2011-2372 [LOW] Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Title: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Summary: Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in Thunderbird.
Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, and Josh Aas discovered
multiple memory vulnerabilities in the Gecko rendering engine. An
attacker could use these to possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2011-2995, CVE-2011-2996)
Boris Zbarsky discovered that a frame named "location" could shadow the
window.location object unless a script in a page grabbed a reference to the
true object before the frame was created. This is in violation of the Same
Origin Policy. A malicious E-Mail could possibly use this to access the
local file system. (CVE-2011-2999)
Mark Kaplan discovered an integer underflow in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript
engine. An att
Red Hat
Mozilla: XSS via plugins and shadowed window.location object (MFSA 2011-38)
vendor_redhat·2011-09-28·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2011-2999 [MEDIUM] CWE-79 Mozilla: XSS via plugins and shadowed window.location object (MFSA 2011-38)
Mozilla: XSS via plugins and shadowed window.location object (MFSA 2011-38)
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.23 and 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.3 do not properly handle "location" as the name of a frame, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0170.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 5.7) - Affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 5.7) - Affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.1) - Affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.1) - Affected
GHSA
GHSA-f562-g9gh-gpgg: Mozilla Firefox before 3
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2011-2999 [MEDIUM] GHSA-f562-g9gh-gpgg: Mozilla Firefox before 3
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.23 and 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.3 do not properly handle "location" as the name of a frame, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0170.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/46315http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2312http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2313http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2317http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-38.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1341.htmlhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665548https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14252http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00002.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/46315http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2312http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2313http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2317http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:139http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:140http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-38.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1341.htmlhttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665548https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14252
2011-09-29
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