Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-032 - Security issues were identified and fixed in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. Security researchers Blair Strang and Scott Bell of Security Assessment found that when a parent window spawns and closes a child window that uses the file open dialog, a crash can be induced in shlwapi.dll on 32-bit Windows 7 systems. This crash may be potentially exploitable. Firefox prevents the dropping of javascript: links onto a frame to prevent malicious sites from tricking users into performing a cross-site scripting attacks on themselves. Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported a way to bypass this protection. Various other issues were also addressed.
3cbc2c67f035fe9b1398b1120f8f0507ea8dbc4b9d3dce95d3e1907578dea5a9Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2012-032 - Security issues were identified and fixed in mozilla firefox and thunderbird. Security researchers Blair Strang and Scott Bell of Security Assessment found that when a parent window spawns and closes a child window that uses the file open dialog, a crash can be induced in shlwapi.dll on 32-bit Windows 7 systems. Security researcher Soroush Dalili reported a way to bypass this protection. Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG found two issues with Firefox's handling of SVG using the Address Sanitizer tool. Various other issues were also addressed.
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