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Cent OS: CVE-2012-1965: CESA-2012:1088 (firefox)

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Cent OS: CVE-2012-1965: CESA-2012:1088 (firefox)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/18/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0 and Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6 do not properly establish the security context of a feed: URL, which allows remote attackers to bypass unspecified cross-site scripting (XSS) protection mechanisms via a feed:javascript: URL.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-firefox
  • centos-upgrade-xulrunner
  • centos-upgrade-xulrunner-devel

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