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MFSA2013-15 Firefox: Privilege escalation through plugin objects (CVE-2013-0758)

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MFSA2013-15 Firefox: Privilege escalation through plugin objects (CVE-2013-0758)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/13/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/14/2013
Modified
08/07/2020

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges by leveraging improper interaction between plugin objects and SVG elements.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-10_0_12
  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-17_0_2
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-18_0

References

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