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MFSA2014-29 Firefox: Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs (CVE-2014-1511)

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MFSA2014-29 Firefox: Privilege escalation using WebIDL-implemented APIs (CVE-2014-1511)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/18/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/19/2014
Modified
08/07/2020

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to bypass the popup blocker via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-24_4
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-28_0

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