Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-52
Code execution via NoWaiverWrapper
- Announced
- November 8, 2011
- Reporter
- moz_bug_r_a4
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 8
- SeaMonkey 2.5
- Thunderbird 8
Description
Mozilla security researcher moz_bug_r_a4 reported that an internal privilege check failed to respect the NoWaiverWrappers introduced with Firefox 4. This could result in elevated privilege being granted to web content.