Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2008-28
Arbitrary socket connections with Java LiveConnect on Mac OS X
- Announced
- July 1, 2008
- Reporter
- Gregory Fleischer
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 2.0.0.15
- Firefox 3
- SeaMonkey 1.1.10
Description
Security researcher Gregory Fleischer reported a vulnerability in the way Mozilla indicates the origin of a document to the Java Embedding Plugin (JEP) that ships with Firefox on Mac OS X. This vulnerability could allow a malicious Java applet to bypass the same-origin policy and create arbitrary socket connections to other domains.
Workaround
Disable Java on Mac OS X until a version containing these fixes can be installed.