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MFSA2014-05 SeaMonkey: Information disclosure with *FromPoint on iframes (CVE-2014-1483)

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MFSA2014-05 SeaMonkey: Information disclosure with *FromPoint on iframes (CVE-2014-1483)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/06/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/08/2014
Modified
08/24/2020

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information by using an IFRAME element in conjunction with certain timing measurements involving the document.caretPositionFromPoint and document.elementFromPoint functions.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_24_0

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