Mozilla Firefox/SeaMonkey SVG animation Element Information Leakage Vulnerability

Release date: 2011-12-20
Updated on: 2011-12-21

Affected Systems:
Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1
Mozilla Firefox 8.0.
Mozilla Firefox 7.x
Mozilla Firefox 5.x
Mozilla Firefox 4.x
Mozilla Firefox 3.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.x
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.x
Unaffected system:
Mozilla Firefox 9.0.
Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0
Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.6
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 51136
Cve id: CVE-2011-3663

Firefox is a very popular open-source WEB browser. Thunderbird is a mail client that supports IMAP, POP protocol, and HTML format. SeaMonkey is an open-source Web browser, mail and newsgroup client, IRC session client, and HTML editor.

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey may also use the SVG animation accessKey event to monitor keyboard records when JavaScript is disabled. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive keyboard records.

<* Source: Mariusz Mlynsky
Mario Heiderich

Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/47302/
Http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-56.html
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Mozilla
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Mozilla has released a Security Bulletin (mfsa2011-56) and patches for this:

Mfsa2011-56: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-56

Link: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-56.html