Secunia Security Advisory - A weakness and multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information and compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47839
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-01
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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness and multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla
Firefox and Thunderbird, which can be exploited by malicious people to
disclose certain sensitive information and compromise a user's
system.
For more information:
SA47816
1) The weakness is caused due to an error when handling certain
XMLHttpRequest objects generated via a proxy, which can be exploited
to disclose certain sensitive information.
SOLUTION:
Update to Firefox version 3.6.26 or Thunderbird version 3.1.18.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Gregory Fleischer
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-01.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-02.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-04.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-07.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-08.html
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