Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox addEventListener and setTimeout

Source: Internet
Author: User
Tags mozilla thunderbird

Affected Versions:
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0
Vulnerability description:


Firefox is a popular open-source WEB browser.

Firefox's addEventListener and setTimeout implementations have security vulnerabilities. You can use encapsulated objects to bypass the fix provided by MFSA 3.6-19 to execute cross-site scripting attacks. due to changes in the Firefox browser engine, attacks against this version are limited to capturing keyboard hitting events from cross-source frames or windows. <* Reference
Moz_bug_r_a4 (moz_bug_r_a4@yahoo.com)

Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/38608/
Http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-12.html
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Security suggestions:
Vendor patch:

Mozilla
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.mozilla.org ///

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