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Cent OS: CVE-2014-1583: CESA-2014:1635 (firefox)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-1583: CESA-2014:1635 (firefox)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/15/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The Alarm API in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2 does not properly restrict toJSON calls, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via crafted API calls that access sensitive information within the JSON data of an alarm.

Solution(s)

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

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