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CVE-2012-3993

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-10-10	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-3993 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-3993
Phase	Assigned(20120711)

Description

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 does not properly interact with failures of InstallTrigger methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site, related to an "XrayWrapper pollution" issue.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-83.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768101
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2012:163
REDHAT	RHSA-2012:1351
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1351
UBUNTU	USN-1611-1
BID	56119
OSVDB	86111
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16718
SECUNIA	50856
SECUNIA	50892
SECUNIA	50904
SECUNIA	50935
SECUNIA	50936
SECUNIA	50984
SECUNIA	55318
XF	firefox-cow-privilege-escalation(79153)