CVE-2012-3965
published 2012-08-29CVE-2012-3965: Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code…
PriorityP341critical9.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCCICAC
EPSS
2.42%
82.3th percentile
Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that triggers creation of a new tab and then a new window.
Affected
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CVSS provenance
nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
vendor_redhat9.3CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu4.3MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Firefox regression
vendor_ubuntu·2012-09-11·CVSS 4.3
[MEDIUM] Firefox regression
Title: Firefox regression
Summary: USN-1548-1 introduced a regression in Firefox.
USN-1548-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The new package caused a
regression in Private Browsing which could leak sites visited to the
browser cache. This update fixes the problem.
Original advisory details:
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Steve Fink, Bob Clary, Andrew
Sutherland, Jason Smith, John Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic and Daniel
Holbert discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit
these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially
execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1971)
Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2012-08-29·CVSS 4.3
CVE-2012-1970 [MEDIUM] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Multiple security issues were fixed in Firefox.
Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Steve Fink, Bob Clary, Andrew
Sutherland, Jason Smith, John Schoenick, Vladimir Vukicevic and Daniel
Holbert discovered memory safety issues affecting Firefox. If the user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could exploit
these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially
execute code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2012-1970, CVE-2012-1971)
Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. If the
user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page, an attacker could
exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or
potentially execute code with
Red Hat
Mozilla: Escalation of privilege through about:newtab (MFSA 2012-60)
vendor_redhat·2012-08-28·CVSS 9.3
CVE-2012-3965 [CRITICAL] Mozilla: Escalation of privilege through about:newtab (MFSA 2012-60)
Mozilla: Escalation of privilege through about:newtab (MFSA 2012-60)
Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that triggers creation of a new tab and then a new window.
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
GHSA
GHSA-c6rc-75fx-qjhm: Mozilla Firefox before 15
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2012-3965 [HIGH] GHSA-c6rc-75fx-qjhm: Mozilla Firefox before 15
Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 does not properly restrict navigation to the about:newtab page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site that triggers creation of a new tab and then a new window.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16442http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.htmlhttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-60.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16442
2012-08-29
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