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MFSA2014-91 SeaMonkey: Privileged access to security wrapped protected objects (CVE-2014-8631)

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MFSA2014-91 SeaMonkey: Privileged access to security wrapped protected objects (CVE-2014-8631)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/02/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/11/2014
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.31 supports native-interface passing, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended DOM object restrictions via a call to an unspecified method.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_31_0

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