Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-15
Privilege escalation through plugin objects
- Announced
- January 8, 2013
- Reporter
- Mariusz Mlynski
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 18
- Firefox ESR 10.0.12
- Firefox ESR 17.0.2
- SeaMonkey 2.15
- Thunderbird 17.0.2
- Thunderbird ESR 10.0.12
- Thunderbird ESR 17.0.2
Description
Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported that it is possible to open a chrome privileged web page through plugin objects through interaction with SVG elements. This could allow for arbitrary code execution.
In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.